問題詳情

25Verbs such as sing and sink form their past tense by changing the vowel (i.e., from i to a). The term is often used forvowel alternations that mark grammatical contrasts in this way.
(A) ablaut
(B) umlaut
(C) suppletion
(D) reduplication

參考答案

答案:A
難度:適中0.5
統計:A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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(A) Ablaut is a process by which an inflected form of a word is formed by changing the vowel of the base. In the narrower sense, Ablaut refers to the system of root vowel alternations innProto-Indo-European and its daughter languages.(B) Umlaut: ex. ä, ö, ü  a mark (¨) used over a vowel, especially in German, to indicate a different vowel quality.(C) suppletion: the occurrence of an unrelated form to fill a gap in a conjugation (e.g. went as the past tense of go).(D) Reduplication is a word-formation process in which meaning is expressed by repeating all or part of a word....