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Lexicon is
A branch of Linguistics
the list of the words of any language
None of them
Morphology is
A branch of Linguistics
The study of words structures
All of the above
What are words?
Something that is arbitrary
pairing of sound and meaning
All of the above
The Aims of Morphology are
Identification of morphemes
Study of meaning
Identification and study meaning of morphemes
Studies and identifies morphemes and assign meaning to them
What are morphemes?
Suffixes
Small units of words
the study of words structures
Morphemes are grouped into the following classes
Closed and open
Free morphemes
Bound morphemes
Free morphemes are
Morphemes that cannot stand alone as a word, and must be attached to a free morpheme
Words or morphemes that keep the same form every time used and are unchangeable, including conjunctions
Words that are made up of only one morpheme and can stand alone as an English word
Bound morphemes are
Words or morphemes that keep the same form every time used and are unchangeable, including conjunctions
Morphemes that cannot stand alone as a word, and must be attached to a free morpheme
Words that have morphemes that change depending on the grammar and meaning of a sentence, including nouns
Inflectional bound morphemes
Can change the meaning of the entire word
Can not change the meaning of the word
Can stand by themselves
Derivational morphemes
Never change the part of speech of the word
Often change the part of speech of the word
Words that have morphemes that change depending on the grammar and meaning of a sentence, including nouns
Word formation process includes
Combining process
Shortening process
Blending and reduplication processes
All of the above options