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Name: Trần Tùng Linh

Class: 23CNA12
EXERCISES
Ex.1.
Consider the following words and answer the questions below.
a) loneliness b) White House c) undresses d) unthinkable e) immobility f)
decentralization g) easiest h)unreliable i) unhappiness j) lovelier k) optionality
l) independently m)sweeteners
Group the morphemes of these words into free morphemes and bound morphemes
and state whether the bound morphemes are inflectional affixes or derivational
affixes.
The first two words (loneliness and White House) have been done for you

Word Free morpheme Bound morpheme


Derivational affix Inflectional affix

loneliness lone -ly, -ness Ø


White House White, house Ø Ø
undresses Dress Un- es-

unthinkable Think Un-, -able Ø

immobility Mobile Im-, -ity Ø

decentralization centre De-, -al, -ize, - Ø

action
easiest ease -y -est

unhappiness happy Un-, -ness Ø

unreliable rely Un-, -able Ø


lovelier love -ly -er

optionality opt Ion, -al, -ity Ø

independently depend -dent, in-, -ly Ø

sweeteners sweet -en, -er -s

Ex.2.
Consider the following words and answer the questions below

a. examinees e. triumphed i. preplan m. optionality


b. untie f. ageless j. fastest n. prettier
c. invalid g. justice k. reuse o. mistreat
d. comfortable h. payment l. disobeys p. naked

1) For each word, determine whether it is simple or complex


2) Circle all the bound morphemes. Underline all of the roots
3) Cross out all inflectional morphemes

Word Bound
morpheme
Free Derivational Inflectional
morpheme affix affix
examinees Complex exam -ine, -ee -s
untie Complex tie Un-
invalid Complex Valid In-
comfortable Complex comfort -able

triumphed Complex triumph -ed

preplan Complex plan -pre

fastest Complex fast -est

reuse Complex use Re-

disobeys Complex obey Dis- -s

optionality Complex opt -ion, -al, -ity

prettier Complex pretty -er

mistreat Complex treat Mis-

naked simple naked


payment complex pay -ment
ageless complex age -less
justice complex just -ice

Ex.3.
Consider the following words

a. humidifier d. Prematureg. carelessness j.identifiable


b. delightful e. mistreated h. Illogically k.derivational
c. disobeys f. spiteful

Analyze the internal structure of the above words using the bracket
diagram
for example: [[dis [agree]V] V ment]N
a. humidifer:
[humid]A
a. humidifer: b. delightful c. disobeys
[humid]A [delight]N [obey]V
[[humid]A ify]V [[delight]N ful]A [[dis[obey]V]vs]V
[[[humid]Aify]Ver]N
d. Premature e. mistreated f. spiteful
[mature]A [treat]V [spite]A
[[pre[mature]A]A [[mis[treat]V]Ved]V [[spite]A ful]A

j.identifiable h. Illogically k.derivational


[identi]A [logic]A [devir]V
[[identi]A fi]V [[logic]A al]A [[devir]Vation]N
[[[identi]Afi]Vable]A [I[[logic]Aal]A]]Aly]ADV [[[devir]Vation]Nal]A

Ex.4.
Fill in the blanks with suitable words or phrases suggested below in order
to make the passages meaningful (some words can be used twice) (3ms)
affixes, bases, bound, derivational, free, independent, infixes, inflectional
meaningful, morphemes, prefixes, single, suffixes, syllables, verb, morphology
Morphology is the arrangement and relationships of the smallest meaning units in
a language. These minimum units of meaning are called morphemes. Note that
morphemes are not identical to meaning the form don't has one syllable but two
syllables do and not. Conversely, the word Wisconsin has three syllables but is a
derivational morpheme.
It is often useful to distinguish between free and bound morphemes. Free
morphemes can be used alone as independent words - for example, take, for, each,
the, panda. Bound morphemes form words only when attached to at least one other
morpheme; re-, dis-, un-, -ing, -ful, and -tion are all bound morphemes. The most
familiar bound morphemes are affixes (that is, prefixes and suffixes), but even
bases (forms to which affixes are attached) can be bound. An example of a bound
base is the -cept of such words as except, accept, deceptive, and reception.
Some languages also have infixes which appear inside a word, but these are not
important for English. Another classification of affixes distinguishes derivational
and inflectional affixes. For instance, the -s used to form plurals and the -ed used to
indicate past tense are inflectional affixes.
Derivational affixes may be either prefixes or suffixes. Most derivational affixes
simply change the meaning of the word to which they are attached (uniform,
transplant, microwave, unbelievable, desensitize). Derivational affixes normally
change the part-of-speech category and may also change the meaning of the word
to which they are attached. For example, -ify in codify changes the noun code to a
verb

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