Wednesday, May 02, 2012

Chapter 3 Exercise # 3


Mirna Callejas-Lopez
Chapter 3: Morphology: The Words of  Language
Exercise # 3
Match each expression under A with the one statement under B that characterizes it:
          A                                                         B
a. noisy crow       (3) phrase consisting of adjective plus noun  
                            noisy: adjective + describing noun:  crow (naming)
b. scarecrow        (1) compound noun
                            scare+crow =scarecrow: compound word+ noun:crow (naming)            
c. the crow          (6) grammatical morpheme followed by lexical morpheme
                            the; considered Grammatical morpheme+ lexical morpheme: crow
d. crowlike          (5) root morpheme followed by lexical morpheme
                            root:crow  like: lexical morpheme
e. crows              (4) root morpheme plus inflectional affix (pg. 93 –s)

morpheme: linguistic term for the most elemental unit of grammatical form( pg.81)
affixes: bound morphemes precedes or follows other morphemes (un-, pre-,bi-)(pg. 83)
prefixes: occur before other morphemes (bi-)  (pg.83)
suffices: following other morphemes (-ing) (pg.83)

Reference from (Fromkin, Rodman, and Hyams, 2011, pp. 81-85)

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