yule_6_questions_morphology

What are the inflectional morphemes in these expressions? A) Have you eaten yet? B) Do you know how long I've been waiting? C) She's younger than me and always dresses in the latest style. D) We looked through my grandmother's old photo albums. E) My parents' parents were all from Scotland.

(a) -en, (b) -en, -ing (c) -er, -es, -est (d) -ed, -'s, -s (e) -s', -s

What are the allomorphes of the morpheme "plural" in this set of English words? criteria, dogs, oxen, deer, judges, stimuli

-a (OR -on → -a), -s, -en, Ø, -es, -i (OR -us → i)

List the bound morphemes in these words: fearlessly, happier, misleads, previewer, shortening, unreconstructed

-less, -ly, -er, mis-, -s, pre-, -er, -en, -ing, un-, re-, construct, -ed

In Indonesian, the singular form translating "child" is anak and the plural form ("children") is anakanak. What is the term used to describe this relationship?

This is an example of reduplication (i.e. repeating all or part of a form as a way of indicating, for example, that a noun is plural).

What are the functional morphemes in the following sentence? When she walked into the room, the doctor asked me if I had a sore throat or an annoying cough.

When, she, into, the, the, me, if, I, a, or, an

Which of these words has a bound stem: consist, deceive, introduce, repeat?

all of them (-sist, -ceive, -duce, -peat)

Which of these words contains an allomorph of the morpheme "past tense": are, have, must, sitting, waits?

none of them (were, had, sat, waited)