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Compound-affixed words consist of … .
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two or more root-morphemes, one or more affixes and an inflexion
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one root morpheme and an inflexion
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two or more root-morphemes and an inflexion
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two stems
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The system showing a word in all its word-forms is called…
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a paradigm
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a syntagm
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a class
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a part of speech
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Words that are made up of elements from different languages are called…
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hybrids
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synonyms
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doublets
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international words
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There are some criteria for determining whether a word belongs to the borrowed element … .
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pronunciation, the lexical meaning, grammatical forms, spelling
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pronunciation, the lexical meaning, the paradigm
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the concept denoted by the word, phonetic and prosodic features, spelling
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phonetic features and spelling
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Allomorphs are … .
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morpheme variants
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differences in the pronunciation of a morpheme
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differences in the morphological structure of a morpheme
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differences in the pronunciation and morphological structure of a morpheme
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What is the general tendency with the English vocabulary at the modern stage of its history?
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To increase the total number of its meanings.
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To involve the appearance of its new meanings.
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To develop the semantic structure of a word.
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To narrow the total number of its meanings.
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What three aspects of composition are there in the English language?
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They are neutral, morphological and syntactic.
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They are syntactic, morphological and linguistic.
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They are simple, neutral and morphological.
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They are compound, simple and neutral.
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Hyponymy is the semantic relation of … .
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inclusion
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exclusion
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similarity
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contrast
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What do we mean by external structure of the word?
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We mean its morphological structure.
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We mean its lexical meaning.
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We mean its lexico-grammatical structure.
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We mean its semantic structure.
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