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Supplementary Exercises for ME. Lexicology 1Part I Multiple choices. The definition of a word includes. A. a minimal freeform that can function alone B. a unit of meaningC. a sound unity D. all of the above A word is of a language that has a given sound and meaning and syntactic function. A. a minimal free form B. a smallest meaningful unitC. an element which can not be further analyzed D. a grammatica 11 y minima 1 form The Indo-European language family consist of. all the languages in Europe and Indiaal 1 the languages in India and some languages in Europe. most of the languages of Europe, the Near East, and India. Some of the languages of Europe and al 1 the languages of the Near EastThe symbolic connection of a word to a particular thing is almost always. A. logical B. arbitrary C. inherentD. automaticThe prehistoric Indo-European parent language is thought to be. A. A highly inflected language. B. A highly developed language. C. A very difficult language. D. A language of leveled endings. More than one variant, which can realize some morphemes according to the position in a word, are termed . 1 / 32 A word can be formed by two bound morphemesA word can be formed by any two affixes. In different 1anguages, the same concepts can be represented by different sounds, which shows. the relationship between sound and meaning can not be established. there are different logical relations between sound and meaningthe relation between sound and meaning is a matter of convention the concepts are not really the sameThe two major factors that cause changes in meaning are. A. historical reason and class reason B. historical reason an psychological reasonC. class psychological reasonD. extra-1inguistic factors 1inguistic factors Old English vocabulary was in essence with a small quantity of words borrowed from Latin and Scandinavian. A. CelticB. Germanic C. RomanI). Irishis the basic form of a word, which can, t be further analyzed without total loss of identity. A. Stem B. Roo