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Weekly assignment of writing questions that may be on the midterm or the final exam. (Only meant for reference do not try to use as substitude for your assignment since the instructor keeps a record of these.)...

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Questions ‘’Stronger principle of the __(I)___ Hypothesis is __(II)__, and it asserts that language __(III)__. ‘’ 1. Fill in the blanks. I.

II.

A) Linguistics

Sapir – Whorf

B) Sapir – Whorf

Linguistic Determinism determines thought

C) Relativity

Linguistic Relativity

D) Sapir – Whorf

Linguistic Relativity

III. influences thinking

influences thinking determines thought

2. Which of the statements given below is false? A) Morphemes are smallest unit of a word and can be classified as ‘’free’’ and ‘’bound’’ morpheme. B) Bound morphemes cannot stand alone as words. C) Functional morphemes such as; ‘’over’’, ‘’in’’, ‘’the’’ are in closed class. D) There are 2 types of free morpheme; derivational and inflectional.

3. About the sentence ‘’My cat is sleeping over there on the pillow.’’, which one of the statements below is true? A) Sentence has 9 morphemes. B) There are two derivational morphemes in the sentence. C) my, over, there, on, and the are functional morphemes. D) cat, sleeping and pillow are lexical morphemes.

I. He let all the sheep out of the barn.

III. My mother drank a lot yesterday.

II. I asked if he could give me a hand.

IV. She went there to talk to her brother.

4. Identify the types of allomorphs that are in the underlined words above. A) B) C) D)

I. Additive II. Replacive III. Suppletive IV. Zero I. Zero II. Additive III. Suppletive IV. Replacive I. Zero II. Additive III. Replacive IV. Supplative I. Additive II. Additive III. Replacive IV. Supplative

5. Draw the tree diagram for the word ‘’globalization’’. globe - N – al – Adj. - ize - V - ation – N...