b) grammatical category within every part of speech
c) an association of a given meaning with a given sound pattern
4. Find right parts of words sportive and elegant.
a) sport, sportive; elegant: eleg-, -ive, -ant
b) sport, sportive; elegant, elegative
c) sport, sportive; elegant, eleg.
5. Who developed first the morphological typology?
a) Wilhelm von Humboldt
b) Peter Stephen DuPonceau
c) brothers Friedrich von Schlegel and August von Schlegel
Exercise#2. Read the statements below and choose whether they are True or
False.
1. _____Morphological typology studies the units of themorphologicalsyntactic
level.
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2. ______Morphological typology is a way of classifying
the languages of the
world that groups languages according to their common morphological structures.
3. _____Morphemes occur in speech only independently,
not as constituent parts
of words.
4. ______Brothers Friedrich von Schlegel and August von Schlegel distinguished
two types of languages which form words by combining morphemes.
5. _____In analytic languages grammatical categories are not indicated by word
order or by bringing in additional words.
6. _____ Synthetic languages form words by affixing a given number of dependent
morphemes to a root morpheme.
7. _____ In synthetic languages context and syntax
are more important than
morphology.
8. _____ Agglutinative languages tend to have a high number of morphemes per
word, and their morphology is highly regular.
9. _____ Wilhelm von Humboldt proposed a third
category for classifying
languages, a category that he labeled "fusional".
10. ______A feature of polysynthetic languages is commonly expressed as "the
ability to form words that are equivalent to whole sentences in other languages".
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