Study Human Chapter 6
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.
(a) -en, (b) -en, -ing (c) -er, -es, -est, (d) -ed, -'s, -s
What is reduplication?
Reduplication means repeating all or part of a form, often a syllable, as a way of indicating, for example, that a noun is plural or a verb is referring to a future action.
What are the functional morphemes in the following sentence? When he arrived in the morning, the old man had an umbrella and a large plastic bag full of books.
When, he, in, the, the, an, and, a, of
What are the allomorphs 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)
(a) List the bound morphemes in these words: fearlessly, misleads, previewer, shortened, unhappier (b) Which of these words has a bound stem: construct, deceive, introduce, repeat? (c) Which of these words contains an allomorph of the morpheme "past tense": are, have, must, sitting, waits?
a) -less, -ly, mis-, -s, pre-, -er, -en, -ed, un-, -er (b) all of them (-struct, -ceive, -duce, -peat) (c) none of them (were, had, sat, waited)
Provide equivalent forms, in the languages listed, for the English translations shown on the right below. Ganda omuloŋgo ("twin") - ("twins") Ilocano tawta´wa ("windows") - ("window") Kanuri nəmkəj ˇi ("sweetness") - ("sweet") Tagalog bili ("buy") - ("will buy") Tagalog kain ("eat") - ("Eat!")
abaloŋgo; táwa; kəji; bibili; kumain
