Tina Auth's Exercises- Chapter 3 Morphology

Chapter 3 Morphology Exercises-  Tina  Auth

Exercise #2

a.       retro+act+ive

b.      be+friend+ed

c.       tele+vise

d.      margin

e.      en+dear+ment

f.        psych+ology

g.       un+palat+able

h.      holi+day

i.        grand+mother

j.        mor+phem+ic

k.       mis+treat+ment

l.        de+active+ate+tion

m.    saltpeter

n.      air+sick+ness

Exercise #3

a.       noisy crow                          3.   phrase consisting of an adjective plus noun

b.      scarecrow                           1.  compound noun

c.       the crow                              6.  grammatical morpheme followed by lexical morpheme

d.      crowlike                              5.  root morpheme plus derivational suffix

e.      crows                                    4.  root morpheme plus inflectional affix

Exercise #4                       

a.       terrorized                                           3.  Inflectional suffix

b.      uncivilized                                          1.  free root

c.       terrorize                                              4.  derivational suffix

d.      lukewarm                                           2.  bound root

e.      impossible                                         6.  derivational prefix

Exercise #5

a.  Um

b.  Aba

c.  fazi                    woman

       fani                 boy

      zali                   parent

     fundisi             teacher

     bazi                   carver

     limi                   farmer

     dlali                  player

     fundi                  reader

d.   a

e.   i

f.    To form a noun from a verb, drop the suffix “a” and add the suffix “i” and the add either the prefix “um” or “aba” depending on whether the noun is singular or plural respectively.

g.   fund

h.  baz