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Morphology Classwork.1

This document discusses morphology and asks a series of questions about identifying morphemes, word classes, stems, roots, prefixes, suffixes, and allomorphs in English words. Some key points covered include: - Dividing words into their constituent morphemes like "replaces" = re|place|s. - Identifying bound and free morphemes. - Recognizing prefixes, suffixes, and stems and how they affect word class. - Noting allomorphs of morphemes like the past tense "-ed" and plural "-s". - Analyzing example words and sentences to break down their morphological structure.

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Morphology Classwork.1

This document discusses morphology and asks a series of questions about identifying morphemes, word classes, stems, roots, prefixes, suffixes, and allomorphs in English words. Some key points covered include: - Dividing words into their constituent morphemes like "replaces" = re|place|s. - Identifying bound and free morphemes. - Recognizing prefixes, suffixes, and stems and how they affect word class. - Noting allomorphs of morphemes like the past tense "-ed" and plural "-s". - Analyzing example words and sentences to break down their morphological structure.

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Morphology

1. Divide the following words into morphemes (From An Introduction to Language (Fromkin et
al., 2011, p.)):

Example: replaces = re|place|s


retroactive, befriended, televise, margin, endearment, psychology, unpalatable, holiday,

grandmother, morphemic, mistreatment, deactivation, airsickness, predestined

2. Identify the bound & free morphemes in these words (From Yule, 2014, p.73): fearlessly,
happier, misleads, previewer, shortening, unreconstructed

3. Identify the prefixes, suffixes and stems in these words:


Additional question: The prefix in has two meanings. What are they?

uncover, hopeless, heroism, freedom, changeable, preheat, postscript, cohabit, eventful,


induce, agreement, poetic, disagree, replace, sleeper, inapt

4. Identify the prefixes, suffixes and stems in these words. Do the affixes change the word class
of the stem? (From Yule, 2014, p.59)

misfortune, terrorism, carelessness, disagreement, ineffective, unfaithful, prepackaged,


biodegradable, reincarnation, decentralization

5. Which of these words has a bound stem (From Yule, 2014, p.73): construct, deceive,
introduce, repeat

6. Using each of the following suffixes, give four examples of words to illustrate what word
class they form. In general, what is the word class of the stem that each suffix is added to?
(From Denning & Leben, English Vocabulary Elements, p. 44)

a. –ish b. –ity c. -ize

7. What are the functional morphemes in the following sentences? (Yule, 2014, p.73)

When she walked into the room, the doctor asked me if I had a sore throat or an annoying
cough.

8. Divide the following English words into morphemes and show which are stems, which are
derivational affixes and which are inflectional affixes (The Structure of Language – An
Introduction to Grammatical Analysis (Pavey, 2011, p.39-40)):

1. scissors (as in ‘Don’t run with scissors, they’ll slow you down.’)

2. gameplans (as in ‘I have several gameplans for a situation like this.’)

3. polysyllabic (as in ‘The word ambiguous is polysyllabic.’)

4. undercooks (as in ‘Uncle Jim always undercooks the carrots.’)

5. unlockable (as in ‘This door is totally unlockable.’)


6. globalization (as in ‘Globalization leads to a loss of identity.’)

7. procrastinating (as in ‘Have you started to work or are you still procrastinating?’)

8. forgiveness (as in ‘You should ask for forgiveness from her.’)

9. Which of these words contains an allomorph of the morpheme “past tense” (Yule, 2011, p.75)? are,
have, must, sitting, waits

10. What are the allomorphs of the morpheme “plural” in these words (Yule, 2014, p.73)? criteria,
dogs, oxen, deer, stimuli, judges

11. English regular plural and genitive endings have three phonologically conditioned allomorphs
(variant pronunciations): [-z], [-s], and [-ɨz]. For each of the following words, form the plural and
decide which of the allomorphs is used in the process:

lip, lathe, pot, kiss, tack, buzz, club, church, garage, thug, judge, cliff, arena, path, hero, stove

12. For each of the words, identify:


 its word class

   all the morphemes

   the stem

   the root – is it free or bound?

   which morphemes are inflectional

   which morphemes are derivational – do these morphemes change the word class?

speakers, consumption, decorating, transmitted, childishness, disloyalty, uncivilized,


breakfast, previewing, ex-husbands, spoonfuls, neo-classical, falsities, receives,
independence, misunderstandings

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