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Exercises on Morph

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Morphology Exercise 2

Exercises on Morph

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Morphology Exercises II

Part I

1. Identify the free morphemes in the following words:


kissed, freedom, stronger, follow, awe, goodness, talkative, teacher, actor.
2. Use the words above (and any other words that you think are relevant) to answer the
following questions:
a) Can a morpheme be represented by a single phoneme? Give examples. By more
than one phoneme? Give examples.
b) Can a free morpheme be more than one syllable in length? Give
examples. Can a bound morpheme? Give examples.
c) Does the same letter or phoneme—or sequence of letters or phonemes—always
represent the same morpheme? Why or why not?
(Hint: you must refer to the definition of morpheme to be able to
answer this.)
d) Can the same morpheme be spelled differently? Give examples.
e) Can different morphemes be pronounced identically? Give examples.
f) A morpheme is basically the same as:
i. a letter
ii. a sound
iii. a group of sounds
iv. none of the above
3. The words district and discipline show that the sequence of letters
d-i-s does not always constitute a morpheme. (Analogous examples are
mission, missile, begin, and retrofit.) List five more sequences of letters that are
sometimes a morpheme and sometimes not.

4. Can an English word have more than one prefix? Give examples. More than one
suffix? For example? More than one of each? Give examples. Divide the examples you
collected into their root, derivational, and inflectional morphemes.

Part II

1.True or False?
a) Every English word contains at least one root.
b) In English, derivational morphemes occur before inflectional morphemes.
c) In English, derivational suffixes regularly occur before inflectional suffixes.
d) In English, a few inflectional morphemes can occur as prefixes.
e) Every root in English is a free morpheme (i.e., there is no such
thing as a bound root.) (Hint: consider receive, deceive, conceive, perceive.)
2. In a broad phonetic (phonemic) transcription, transcribe the
sounds represented by the bolded letters in impossible, inedible, illegible, irresponsible.
a) What meaning do these pairs of letters have in common?
b) What is the first sound in all four pairs of sounds?
c) What are the second sounds in the pairs of sounds?
d) Why does the second sound vary as it does?

Part III

1. For each set of words below, say whether the words are endocentric,
exocentric, or coordinative compounds. Justify your identification.
a) redneck, yellowjacket, cocktail, blackhead
b) armchair, breathtest, rockopera
c) secretary-treasurer, scholar-administrator

2. Use brackets with subscripts to represent the internal structure of the


words below. Eg. Dropouts [N[N[Vdrop][Pr tout]]s].

retry, sinkable, thoughtless, meaningfulness, microorganisms.

Part IV

1. Can we have morphology without morpheme? Why?


2. Affixation – the central domain of morphology. Demonstrate that (give
example)
a) Prefixation resembles suffixation
b) Prefixation resembles compounding
c) Prefixation is like neoclassical compounding
d) Prefixation is like backformation
e) Suffixation is like neoclassical compounding
f) Suffixation is like conversion
g) Suffixation is like backformation
h) Backformation is like conversion
i) Backformation is like clipping
j) Neoclassical compounding is like compounding
k) Neoclassical compounding is like blending
l) Blends are like acronyms
3. Define and give examples
a) Colloquial language
b) Slang
c) Register

Obs: Please, form study groups to do this exercise.

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