The questions in this quiz are from The Study of Language (THIRD EDITION) book written by GEORGE YULE.
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#1. the process of reducing a word of more than one syllable to a shorter form
#2. a bound morpheme added to the beginning of a word (e.g. unhappy)
#3. a word-formation process in which a longer word is reduced to a shorter form with -y or -ie at the end
#4. a new word formed from the initial letters of other words
#5. a morpheme such as un- or -ed that cannot stand alone and must be attached to another form (e.g. undressed)
#6. a type of borrowing in which each element of a word is translated into the borrowing language, also called calque
#7. a bound morpheme such as un- or -ed added to a word (e.g. undressed) un-, mis-, pre-, -ful, -less, -ish, -ism and -ness which appear in words like unhappy, misrepresent, prejudge, joyful, careless, boyish, terrorism and sadness.
#8. a process of forming a new word to be similar in some way to an existing word
#9. the invention of new words
#10. the process of forming new words by adding affixes
#11. the process of reducing a word such as a noun to a shorter version and using it as a new word such as a verb
#12. a new word
#13. the process of combining the beginning of one word and the end of another word to form a new word
#14. the process of changing the function of a word, such as a noun to a verb, as a way of forming new words, also known as ‘category change’ or ‘functional shift’
#15. the process of combining two (or more) words to form a new word (e.g. waterbed)
#16. a morpheme that is inserted in the middle of a word (e.g. -rn- in the Kamhmu word srnal).
#17. the process of taking words from other languages
#18. the study of the origin and history of words
#19. a word derived from the name of a person or place
#20. a bound morpheme added to the end of a word (e.g. fainted, illness)
