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word-formation questions for final exam (wf_exam_questions-_06.doc)

Word formation – Exam questions (Stekauer)

1. scope of word formation according to marchand
2. marchand’s expansion, transposition and derivation
3. definition of word and morpheme
4. two classes of wf processes reflecting marchand’s criteria
5. lee’s 8 types of compounds
6. the basic principles of lees 1960 theory of compound generation
7. major criticism of lees by marchand
8. lees 1970 version of transformational account of compound generation
9. kastovskys transformationalist approach to compound generation
10. give a scheme of halles model of wf
11. explain the role of filter in halles model of wf
12. explain three types of idiosyncrasies in halles model
13. what is the difference btw list of morphemes and the dictionary of words in halles model
14. give an example of phonological conditioning of wf rules in halles model
15. explain aronoffs word based theory
16. explain aronoffs approach to productivity
17. explain aronoffs model of semantic coherence
18. explain aronoffs principle of blocking
19. explain siegels level ordering hypothesis
20. explain the phonological differences between 2 classes of affixes in siegels theory
21. explain the structural  difference between 2 classes of affixes in siegels theory
22. explain allens extended ordering hypothesis
23. explain allens adjacency condition
24. explain allens variable R condition
25. explain allens IS A condition
26. explain liebers feature percolation conventions 1,2
27. explain liebers feature percolation conventions 3
28. explain liebers feature percolation conventions 4
29. explain Williams rhr and relativized head rule
30. explain Selkirk revised rhr
31. explain bauers conception of productivity (actual, potential, possible and probable words)
32. explain bauers distinction between availability and profitability
33. explain bauers distinction btw type and token frequencies
34. explain bauers computation of productivity in wf
35. explain baayens computation of productivity in wf
36. explain the difference btw morphematic and non-morphematic processes
37. explain the difference btw payable, reliable vs. fashionable, respectable
38. explain the principle of class changing and class maintaining affixation
39. the basic principle of conversion
40. explain conversion and zero derivation
41. explain the peculiarity of words like strawberry and gooseberry
42. explain the nature of acronyms and clippings. Are they wf processes? Justify your claim
43. origin of English affixes
44. draw a scheme of onomasiological model of wf
45. explain the relation btw extralinguistic reality, speech community and conceptual level
46. explain the terms logical predicates and logical spectrum
47. explain the role of the onomasiological and the onomatological levels
48. explain the morpheme-to-seme assignment principle
49. explain the interrelation btw the lexical component and the wf component
50. explain the basic principles of a theory of conversion as conceptual recategorization
51. explain onomasiological type
52. explain onomasiological type 2,3
53. explain onomasiological type 4
54. explain the principles of productivity from the onomasiological point of view
55. explain productivity at the level of onomasiological types
56. explain the productivity at the level of wf types
57. explain productivity at the level of morphological types
58. explain the basic structure of the onomasiological level according to dolulil
59. what is meant by contextuals
60. explain the term nonce-formation
61. explain kastovskys term systematic lexicalization
62. explain the term deitic compounds
63. explain bauers term institutionalization
64. explain bauers account of lexicalization
65. give examples of phonological, morphological, semantic and syntactic types of lexicalization
66. explain lipkas concept of demotivation and idiomatization + examples
67. explain and exemplify lipkas three subtypes of lexicalization
68. explain metaphor and metonymy + give examples
69. explain demotivation due to  the extralinguistic changes + examples
70. explain the difference between token blocking and type blocking
71. give examples of phonological constraints on productivity
72. give examples of morphological constraints on productivity
73. give examples of syntactic constraints on productivity
74. give examples of semantic constraints on productivity
75. give at least five criteria of compoundhood
76. explain the relevance of spelling and stress as criteria of compoundhood
77. explain uninterruptability (inseparability) of a compound as a criterion of compoundhood and give exceptions (note – phrasal verbs) to this rule
78. explain the semantic criterion of the compoundhood
79. explain the difference btw endocentric and exocentric compounds
80. explain the difference btw primary and synthetic compounds
81. explain the recursiveness in compounding
82. explain the difference btw determinative and coordinative compounds
83. explain neoclassical compounds
84. explain term identical constituent compounds, give some examples and identify their prototypical meanings for Nouns, Adjectives and Adverbs