Morphology 10/8/2016

Tutorial Task Individual

1.Divide the following words by placing a + between their morphemes n

state the number of mophemes. (Some of the words may be
monomorphemic and therefore indivisible.)

Example : replaces = re + place + s --- 3

a. retroactive =

b. befriended =

c. televise =

d. margin =

e. endearment =

f. psycology =

g. unpalatable =

h. holiday =

i. grandmother =

j. morphemic =

k. mistreatment =

l. deactivation =

m. saltpeter =

n. airsickness =
Draw a tree diagram for the words below

probably useable lockable believeable

assortment reconstruct redeliver restart

surrounded rewrite election selection

temptation protection eviction undeliverable

glorious reconstruction payable systematically

doable refinalize beautifully rehospitalizes

Number the expression in A with one statement from B that

characterizes it.

a. noisy crow

b. scarecrow

c. the crow

d. crowlike

e. crows

1. compound noun

2. root morpheme plus derivational prefix

3. phrase consisting of adjective plus

4. root morpheme plus inflectional affix

5. root morpheme plus derivational suffix

6. grammatical morpheme followed by lexical morpheme

Choose the description from list B for the bold and itelicized part of each
word in A.

1. terrorized

2. uncivilized

3.terrorize

4. lukewarm

5. impossible

1. free root

2. bound root

3. inflectional suffix

4. derivational suffix

5. inflectional prefix

6. derivational prefix

7. inflectional infix

8. derivational infix

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