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Which of the following is the smallest meaningful unit of language?
Phoneme
Morpheme
Word
Allomorphs are different phonetic or morphological variants of a morpheme
Which type of morpheme can stand alone as an independent word?
Inflectional morpheme
Free morpheme
Bound morpheme
In agglutinative languages, affixes.....
Are phonetically and morphologically indistinct from one another
Combine multiple grammatical meanings in a single affix
Are added to a root or stem in a predictable manner
Which of the following is an example of an agglutinative language?
English
Turkish
Mandarin Chinese
Fusional languages are characterized by affixes that carry multiple grammatical meanings simultaneously
Latin is an example of a fusional language. Which of the following is a fusional inflectional ending in Latin?
"-ō"
"-ing"
"-s"
Which of the following is a polysynthetic language?
Inuktitut
Japanese
French
Polysynthetic languages are characterized by:
A high degree of fusion between roots and affixes
The incorporation of multiple morphemes into a single word
Affixes that carry multiple grammatical meanings simultaneously
Which type of morphological structure is characterized by clear boundaries between the root/stem and the affixes?
Analytic
Agglutinative
Fusional