The subjective part of meaning is the connotation of the word. ........................... .................. are subjective, they characterize the speaker, his attitude, his social role.
..................................... related to parts of human body, clothing or instruments people use. However, the meaning of the converted words may vary from the meaning of the non-converted words. For example, a skirt denotes a woman’s garment that hangs from the waist
Roots-are main morphemic vehicles of a given idea in a given language at a given stage of its development. A root may be also regarded as the ultimate constituent element which remains ......................................... all functional and derivational affixes and does not admit any further analysis
It will at once be noticed that the root in English is very often homonymous with the word. This fact is of fundamental importance as .....................................................................................................................arising from its general grammatical system on the one hand, and from its phonemic system on the other
A. . It is one of the most specification features of the English language
B.
It is one of the most specified features of the English language
C.
It is one of the most specific features of the English language
D.
It is one of the most specifiable features of the English language.
According to the role they play in constructing words, morphemes are subdivided into roots and affixes. ....................................................................................................................................................... into prefixes, suffixes and infixes
A. The latest are further subdivided, according to their position
B. The last are further subdivided, according to their position
C. The latter are further subdivided, according to their position
D. The later are further subdivided, according to their position
Many English words consist of a single root-morpheme, so when we say that most morphemes possess ................................................... we imply mainly the root-morphemes in such words
A form is said to be free if it may stand alone without changing its meaning; if not, it is a bound form, so called because ..............................
Descripitive lexicology studies the words at a synchronic aspect. It is concerned with the vocabulary of a language as they exist at the …………………………….. time
A morpheme is also an association of a given meaning with..................
...................................... But unlike a word it is not autonomous. Morphemes occur in speech only as constituent parts of words, not independently, although a word may consist of a single morpheme
The term morpheme is derived from Gr morphe 'form'+ eme. Linguists to ...................................................or the minimum distinctive feature have adopted the Greek suffix – eme. (Cf. phoneme, sememe). The morpheme is the smallest meaningful unit of form