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LEXICOLOGY: Final Test
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Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 25mins
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Instructor name: Bảo Nguyễn
1. Lexicology is a branch of linguistics which deals with…
a) the outer sound form of the word b) lexical units and the vocabulary of a language
c) the study of the nature, functions and structure d) various means of expressing grammatical
of stylistic devices and with the investigation of relations between words and with patterns after
each style of language which words are combined into word-groups
and sentences
2. The term lexicology comes from …
a) a French word b) a Greek word
3. The object of lexicology is …
a) lexical units b) methods of lexical units’ investigation
c) phonemes
4. LEXIS means …
a) vocabulary b) learning
c) phrase
5. Lexicology has close ties with …
a) phonetics, grammar, history of a language, b) literature, history and sociology
stylistics and sociolinguistics
c) phonetics and grammar
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6. What is Special Lexicology?
a) It is the lexicology of a particular language b) It is the lexicology of any language
7. The synchronic approach to the study of language material is concerned with …
a) the vocabulary of a language as it exists at a b) the evolution of the vocabulary items
given period of time
c) the use of various words and phrases in
particular communicative situations
8. The diachronic approach to the study of language material deals with …
a) the changes and the development of b) the structural and semantic entity of language
vocabulary in the course of time units within the language system
c) the influence of extra-linguistic factors over the
development of a language system as a whole
9. The object of Historical Lexicology is …
a) the study of the evolution of the vocabulary b) the study of the correlation between the
vocabularies of two languages
c) the study of vocabulary at a certain time of its
development
10. The word has …
a) phonological and semantic aspects b) phonological, semantic, syntactic aspects
c) phonological and syntactic aspects
11. By external structure of the word we mean …
a) its morphological structure b) its meaning
12. Internal structure of the word is …
a) its semantic structure b) its sound-form
c) its morphological structure
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13. Which branch of lexicology deals with the meaning of words and other linguistic units?
a) Semasiology b) Lexical Morphology
c) Onomasiology
14. Semantic studies …
a) meaning b) sound-form
c) morphemes
15. Which of the two main approaches to lexical meaning studies the connection between words
and things or concepts they denote?
a) the functional approach b) the referential approach
16. The content plane of words includes ...
a) denotative and connotative meaning b) denotative meaning
17. Lexical meaning is …
a) individual, unique b) general, standard
18. The denotative component of meaning is …
a) the grammatical component of a word b) the leading component in the semantic
structure of a word
c) the emotive charge and stylistic reference
19. Connotative meaning is …
a) the emotive charge and the stylistic value of b) the word’s reference to the object
the word
20. A lexeme is …
a) all the grammatical meanings of a morpheme b) all the morphological variants of a morpheme
c) all the lexical meanings inherent in a
morpheme
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21. Polysemy is …
a) the ability of a word to convey several concepts b) the ability of a word to have different variants of
pronunciation
c) the ability of a word to have variants of spelling
22. Two or more words identical in sound-form but different in meaning, distribution and (in many
cases) origin are …
a) antonyms b) paronyms
c) homonyms
23. By their graphic and sound-form there may be …
a) full and partial homonyms b) perfect homonyms, homophones and
homographs
c) grammatical, lexical and lexico-grammatical
homonyms
24. Homophones are words which coincide in …
a) sound-form b) sound-form and spelling
c) spelling
25. Homographs are words identical in …
a) spelling b) sound-form
c) meaning
26. The words HEIR – AIR refer to …
a) homonyms proper b) homophones
c) homographs
27. Synonyms are words …
a) similar in the connotational meaning b) similar in the denotational meaning
c) different in the denotational meaning
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28. Antonyms are words different in …
a) denotational meaning b) connotational meaning
c) part-of-speech meaning
29. Hyponymy is the semantic relation of …
a) exclusion b) inclusion
c) similarity
30. Word-formation …
a) deals with segmentation of words into b) is an autonomous language mechanism which
morphemes is used to make new words
31. What is the subject matter of word-formation?
a) derivational affixes and models b) a morpheme
c) the morphemic structure of a word and the
ways of word building
32. A morpheme is…
a) the smallest grammatical unit b) the smallest meaningful language unit
c) the smallest phonetic unit
33. Allomorphs are …
a) differences in the pronunciation of a morpheme b) differences in the morphological structure of a
morpheme
c) morpheme variants
34. What morphemes are singled out semantically?
a) roots, affixes and inflexions b) free, bound, and semi-bound
c) roots and affixes
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35. Structurally morphemes are divided into …
a) free, bound and semi-bound b) roots and affixes
c) productive and unproductive
36. The morphemes which may occur alone and coincide with word-forms or immutable words are
…
a) free morphemes b) bound morphemes
37. A semi-free morpheme is …
a) one which occurs only as a constituent part of b) one that coincides with the stem or a word-
a word form
c) one, which can function in a morphemic
sequence both as an affix and as a free
38. The word ANTIPATHY consists of...
a) the root, free morpheme + the root, bound b) the affixational, bound morpheme + the root,
morpheme free morpheme
c) the affixational, bound morpheme + the
combining form which is a bound root
39. Affixation consists in …
a) putting two stems together b) adding an affix to a stem
40. By their activity in the language affixes are classified into …
a) recurrent and unique b) prefixes and suffixes
c) productive and non-productive
41. A non-affixal type of word-building is …
a) compounding b) conversion
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42. Conversion is …
a) cases of phonetic identity of words b) the formation of nouns from verbs
c) the formation of a new word through the
change in its paradigm
43. Back-formation is a way of word-building when a new word is formed by …
a) the imitation of different sounds b) dropping the initial sounds
c) dropping the final morpheme
44. There are the following types of shortening:
a) blending, ellipsis, acronyms, semantic b) ellipsis, acronyms, blending, clipping
extension
c) clippings, lexicalization, ellipsis,
substantivization
45. The word GLOBESITY is a(n) ....
a) acronym b) shortening
c) blend
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