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Morphology 1.What is morphology? 2.How are words classified? 3.What is the relationship between word category and its meaning? 4.How can you identify the meaning of a word? 5.What is a morpheme? 6.What is a morph and an allomorph? 7.How many morphemes are there in each of the following words? a) superasegmental b) interactionist c) industrialization d) decentralized 8.How many allomorphs does the plural morpheme ｛s｝have? What are they? 9. How are morphemes classified? 10. What is an inflectional morpheme? And what is a derivational one? 11. How many inflectional morphemes does modern English have? What are they? 12. How are the following words formed? antislavery; greenhouse; skin the apple; UFO; TESOL; medicare; ad Syntax 1.What is syntax? 2.What is a syntactic category? 3.What are endocentric and exocentric constructions? 4.What are phrase structure rules like? 5What are the three syntactic relations like? 6. What is sentence rule like? 7. What is IC Analysis? 8. What are deep structures and surface structure? 9. What are transformational rules? 10. Are you able to analyze sentences with tree diagrams? Introduction: Language 1. What’s your understanding of language? 2. What are the well-known theories about the origin of language? 3. What are the design features of human language? 4. What functions does language have? Introduction: Linguistics 1. What is linguistics? 2. What are the main branches of linguistics? 3. Please describe the scope of research for each branch of linguistics. 4. What are the interdisciplinary studies of language? 5. What is the difference between synchronic linguistics and diachronic linguistics? 6. What distinguishes prescriptive studies of language from descriptive studies of language? 7. What is the difference between langue and parole? 8. What is the difference between competence and performance? Introduction: Language Linguistics I. Fill in the blanks. (1) Language, broadly speaking, is a means of human communicat