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Practice Exercises in Morphology Linguistics 201
Free and Bound Morphemes List the morphemes in each word below,
and state whether each morpheme is free (F) or bound (B). 1.
creating 6. unhealthy 2. seaward 7. waiter 3. wastage 8. reconsider
4. poetic 9. keys 5. modernize 10. incompletion Word Trees For each
word below, draw a word tree. 1. shipper 6. simply 2. disobey 7.
jumping 3. resettled 8. digitizes 4. anticlimaxes 9. activity 5.
unemployment 10. confrontational
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Practice Exercises in Morphology Linguistics 201
Free and Bound Morphemes List the morphemes in each word below,
and state whether each morpheme is free (F) or bound (B). 1.
creating 6. unhealthy create (F) un (B) ing (B) health (F) y (B) 2.
seaward 7. waiter sea (F) wait (F) ward (B) er (B) 3. wastage 8.
reconsider waste (F) re (B) age (B) consider (F) 4. poetic 9. keys
poet (F) key (F) ic (B) s (B) 5. modernize 10. incompletion modern
(F) in (B) ize (B) complete (F) ion (B)
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Word Trees For each word below, draw a word tree. 1. shipper 6.
simply 2. disobey 7. jumping 3. resettled 8. digitizes 4.
anticlimaxes 9. activity 5. disengagement 10. confrontational 1. N
2. V V DAff DAff V ship er dis obey 3. V V DAff V IAff re settle d
4. N N DAff N IAff anti climax es 5. 3. N V DAff V DAff dis engage
ment
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6. Adv 7. V Adj DAff V IAff simple y jump ing For #7, jumping
could also be either a noun (Jumping over the water was dangerous)
or an adjective (The jumping bunnies looked ridiculous.) In both of
these cases, ing is a derivational affix. 8. V V N DAff IAff digit
ize s 9. N Adj V DAff DAff act ive ity 10. Adj N V DAff DAff
confront ation al
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Practice Exercises in Morphology II Linguistics 201
Derivational and Inflectional Affixes For each word below,
indicate whether the word is morphologically simple (S), includes
an inflectional affix (I), or includes a derivational affix (D). 1.
rider 6. reader 2. colder 7. redder 3. silver 8. radish 4. lens 9.
redness 5. legs 10. rotation
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Esperanto Esperanto is an artificial language that was invented
by Ludwig Zamenhof in 1887. It was designed to be easy to learn and
is based largely on the languages of western Europe. It is now
primarily spoken in France, although it may also be found in
eastern Asia, South America and eastern Europe. There are now
between 200-2,000 native speakers and about 2,000,000 people
worldwide speak it as a second language. Examine the following data
from Esperanto and then answer the questions below: 1. bono
goodness 11. portistino female porter 2. instrua instructive 12.
pura pure 3. malfacila difficult 13. malbone badly 4. patrino
mother 14. facile easily 5. instruisto teacher 15. bona good 6.
porti to carry 16. malgranda small 7. facila easy 17. bone well 8.
patro father 18. facilo easiness 9. portisto porter 19. granda big
10. instrui to instruct 20. instruo instruction A. What are the
morphemes that correspond to the following lexical categories and
concepts? i. Nouns iv. Adverbs ii. Verbs v. Feminine iii.
Adjectives vi. The opposite (not) B. Translate the following
English words and phrases into Esperanto. i. purity ii. bad iii.
female teacher
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Practice Exercises in Morphology II Linguistics 201
Derivational and Inflectional Affixes For each word below,
indicate whether the word is morphologically simple (S), includes
an inflectional affix (I), or includes a derivational affix (D). 1.
rider D 6. reader D 2. colder I 7. redder I 3. silver S 8. radish S
4. lens S 9. redness D 5. legs I 10. rotation D
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Esperanto Esperanto is an artificial language that was invented
by Ludwig Zamenhof in 1887. It was designed to be easy to learn and
is based largely on the languages of western Europe. It is now
primarily spoken in France, although it may also be found in
eastern Asia, South America and eastern Europe. There are now
between 200-2,000 native speakers and about 2,000,000 people
worldwide speak it as a second language. Examine the following data
from Esperanto and then answer the questions below: 1. bono
goodness 11. portistino female porter 2. instrua instructive 12.
pura pure 3. malfacila difficult 13. malbone badly 4. patrino
mother 14. facile easily 5. instruisto teacher 15. bona good 6.
porti to carry 16. malgranda small 7. facila easy 17. bone well 8.
patro father 18. facilo easiness 9. portisto porter 19. granda big
10. instrui to instruct 20. instruo instruction A. What are the
morphemes that correspond to the following lexical categories and
concepts? i. Nouns o iv. Adverbs e ii. Verbs i v. Feminine in iii.
Adjectives a vi. The opposite (not) mal B. Translate the following
English words and phrases into Esperanto. i. purity puro ii. bad
malbona iii. female teacher instruistino
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Practice Exercises in Morphology III Linguistics 201
I. Morphological Analysis From the following data sets, identify
the strings of sounds which correspond to the morphemes in each
language. Swahili Swahili is a Bantu language which is spoken
primarily in East Africa. There are approximately 800,000 native
speakers of Swahili, and some 30,000,000 people (!) worldwide speak
Swahili as a second language. anapenda 'he likes' alimona 'he saw
him' atapenda 'he will like' alimsaidia 'he helped him' alipenda
'he liked' alimpiga 'he hit him' amependa 'he has liked' alimchukua
'he carried him' alinipenda 'he liked me' alimua 'he killed him'
alikupenda 'he liked you' ananitazama 'he looks at me' alimpenda
'he liked him' atakusikia 'he will hear you' alitupenda 'he liked
us' alitupanya 'he cured us' aliwapenda 'he liked them' ninakupenda
'I like you' nitampenda 'I will like him' nitawapenda 'I will like
them' Pronouns Tenses Verbs he: [present]: see: me: [future]: help:
you: [past]: hit: him: [past part.]: carry: us: kill: them: look:
I: hear: cure: like: Translate the following English sentences into
Swahili: i. He has hit me. ii. He helps us. iii. I will look at
you.
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Cree Cree is an Algonquian language which is spoken primarily in
Canada. There are approximately 100,000 native speakers, who can be
found from the Rocky Mountains in Alberta all the way to James Bay
in northern Quebec. niwapahten 'I see' niwapahtenan 'We see'
kimachishen 'You cut' kimachishenawaw 'You (pl.) cut' nitapinan 'We
sit' nitapin 'I sit' kiwapahten 'You see' kiwapahtenawaw 'You (pl.)
see' nimachishenan 'We cut' nimachishen 'I cut' kitapinawaw 'You
(pl.) sit' kitapin 'You sit' Pronouns Verbs I: see: You: cut: We:
sit: You (pl.): II. Word-Formation Processes Name the
word-formation process exemplified by each of the following
derivations. 1. Graphical User Interface GUI 2. professor prof 3.
information + commercial infomercial 4. drink drank 5. sandwich
(named after John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich!) 6. un- + rely
+ -able unreliable 7. wind + shield windshield 8. orientation
orientate 9. good better 10. a process to process
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Practice Exercises in Morphology III Linguistics 201
I. Morphological Analysis From the following data sets, identify
the strings of sounds which correspond to the morphemes in each
language. Swahili Swahili is a Bantu language which is spoken
primarily in East Africa. There are approximately 800,000 native
speakers of Swahili, and some 30,000,000 people (!) worldwide speak
Swahili as a second language. anapenda 'he likes' alimona 'he saw
him' atapenda 'he will like' alimsaidia 'he helped him' alipenda
'he liked' alimpiga 'he hit him' amependa 'he has liked' alimchukua
'he carried him' alinipenda 'he liked me' alimua 'he killed him'
alikupenda 'he liked you' ananitazama 'he looks at me' alimpenda
'he liked him' atakusikia 'he will hear you' alitupenda 'he liked
us' alitupanya 'he cured us' aliwapenda 'he liked them' ninakupenda
'I like you' nitampenda 'I will like him' nitawapenda 'I will like
them' Pronouns Tenses Verbs he: a [present]: na see: ona me: ni
[future]: ta help: saidia you: ku [past]: li hit: piga him: m [past
part.]: me carry: chukua us: tu kill: ua them: wa look: tazama I:
ni hear: sikia cure: panya like: penda Translate the following
English sentences into Swahili: i. He has hit me. amenipiga ii. He
helps us. anatusaidia iii. I will look at you. nitakutazama
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Cree Cree is an Algonquian language which is spoken primarily in
Canada. There are approximately 100,000 native speakers, who can be
found from the Rocky Mountains in Alberta all the way to James Bay
in northern Quebec. niwapahten 'I see' niwapahtenan 'We see'
kimachishen 'You cut' kimachishenawaw 'You (pl.) cut' nitapinan 'We
sit' nitapin 'I sit' kiwapahten 'You see' kiwapahtenawaw 'You (pl.)
see' nimachishenan 'We cut' nimachishen 'I cut' kitapinawaw 'You
(pl.) sit' kitapin 'You sit' Pronouns Verbs I: ni see: wapahten
You: ki cut: machishen We: ni- -an sit: tapin You (pl.): ki -awaw
II. Word-Formation Processes Name the word-formation process
exemplified by each of the following derivations. 1. Graphical User
Interface GUI Acronym 2. professor prof Clipping 3. information +
commercial infomercial Blend 4. drink drank Internal Change 5.
sandwich (named after John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich!)
Eponym 6. un- + rely + -able unreliable Affixation 7. wind + shield
windshield Compound 8. orientation orientate Back formation 9. good
better Suppletion 10. a process to process Conversion
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More Morphology Practice Exercises Linguistics 201
Turkish Turkish is an Altaic language. It is the official
language of Turkey and is spoken by about 50 million people
worldwide. 1. deniz 'an ocean' 9. elim 'my hand' 2. denize 'to an
ocean' 10. eller 'hands' 3. denizin 'of an ocean' 11. dishler
'teeth' 4. eve 'to a house' 12. dishiminiz 'of our tooth' 5. evden
'from a house' 13. dishleriminiz 'of our teeth' 6. evjikden 'from a
little house' 14. eljike 'to a little hand' 7. denizjikde 'in a
little ocean' 15. denizlerimizde 'in our oceans' 8. elde 'in a
hand' 16. evjiklerimizde 'in our little houses' A. Give the Turkish
morpheme which corresponds to each of the following English
translations. ocean: in: my: house: to: of: hand: from: our: tooth:
[plural]: little: B. What is the order of morphemes in a Turkish
word (in terms of noun, plural marker, etc.)? C .How would you say
"of our little hands" in Turkish? D. Give the English translation
for the Turkish form "dishjiklerden".
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Czech (this one's tricky!): Czech is a Slavic language which is
spoken by about 10 million people, primarily in the Czech Republic.
nesu I carry yedu I drive ponese He will carry ponesu I will carry
povedete You (pl) will lead yede He drives poplavu I will swim nese
He carries priplavesh You will swim here odnesou They will carry
away priyedou They will drive here odplavete You (pl.) will swim
away odvedeme We will lead away poplaveme We will swim odyede He
will drive away prineseme We will bring here poyede He will drive
prinese He will bring here nesou They carry odvedu I will lead away
plavou They swim odnesesh You carry away vedeme We lead A. Identify
the Czech morphemes which correspond to the following English
translations: Verbs Pronouns Tense, Location carry: I: here: bring:
he: away: lead: we: will: drive: you: swim: you (pl.): they: B.
What is the order of these morphemes in Czech (in terms of verbs,
pronouns, tense, location)? C. Provide Czech translations for the
following English sentences: 1. He will swim. 2. They drive away.
3. You lead away. 4. I will bring here.
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More Morphology Practice Exercises Linguistics 201
Turkish Turkish is an Altaic language. It is the official
language of Turkey and is spoken by about 50 million people
worldwide. 1. deniz 'an ocean' 9. elim 'my hand' 2. denize 'to an
ocean' 10. eller 'hands' 3. denizin 'of an ocean' 11. dishler
'teeth' 4. eve 'to a house' 12. dishiminiz 'of our tooth' 5. evden
'from a house' 13. dishleriminiz 'of our teeth' 6. evjikden 'from a
little house' 14. eljike 'to a little hand' 7. denizjikde 'in a
little ocean' 15. denizlerimizde 'in our oceans' 8. elde 'in a
hand' 16. evjiklerimizde 'in our little houses' A. Give the Turkish
morpheme which corresponds to each of the following English
translations. ocean: deniz in: de my: im house: ev to: e of: in
hand: el from: den our: imiz tooth: dish [plural]: ler little: jik
B. What is the order of morphemes in a Turkish word (in terms of
noun, plural marker, etc.)? noun - adjective - plural - possessive
pronoun - preposition
Exception: when "imiz" (our) is combined with "in" (of), the
"in" appears inside of the "imiz". For example, #12: dishiminiz "of
our tooth"
C .How would you say "of our little hands" in Turkish?
eljikleriminiz D. Give the English translation for the Turkish form
"dishjiklerden". from little teeth
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Czech (this one's tricky!): Czech is a Slavic language which is
spoken by about 10 million people, primarily in the Czech Republic.
nesu I carry yedu I drive ponese He will carry ponesu I will carry
povedete You (pl) will lead yede He drives poplavu I will swim nese
He carries priplavesh You will swim here odnesou They will carry
away priyedou They will drive here odplavete You (pl.) will swim
away odvedeme We will lead away poplaveme We will swim odyede He
will drive away prineseme We will bring here poyede He will drive
prinese He will bring here nesou They carry odvedu I will lead away
plavou They swim odnesesh You carry away vedeme We lead A. Identify
the Czech morphemes which correspond to the following English
translations: Verbs Pronouns Tense, Location carry: nes I: u here:
pri bring: nes he: e away: od lead: ved we: eme will: po drive: yed
you: esh swim: plav you (pl.): ete they: ou B. What is the order of
these morphemes in Czech (in terms of verbs, pronouns, tense,
location)? tense/location - verb - pronoun
Note: when a location (here/away) is specified, then the future
morpheme ("po") does not appear on the surface.
C. Provide Czech translations for the following English
sentences: 1. He will swim. poplave 2. They drive away. odyedou 3.
You lead away. odvedesh 4. I will bring here. prinesu
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