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)