English Morphology Answers - Part 3

English morphology answers about: free and bound morphemes, grammatical class changing and class maintaining morphemes, inflectional and derivational morphemes, word tree, syntactic category, and word root, tree diagram.

Answers 1                     Exercise

Give a thorough characterization of the morphemes in the following words as shown below:
Discourageable

Dis-: Bound morpheme (prefix), Derivational, Grammatical class maintaining, Function: Negation.
Cour: Lexical root, Grammatical category: Noun.
-age: Bound morpheme (suffix), Derivational, Grammatical class maintaining, Function: form Nouns.
-able: Bound morpheme (suffix), Derivational, Grammatical class changing, Function : form Adjectives.

Traditionally

tradition: Lexical root, Grammatical category: Noun.
-al: Bound morpheme (suffix), Derivational, Grammatical class changing, Function: form Adjectives.
-ly: Bound morpheme (suffix), Derivational, Grammatical class changing, Function : form Adverbs.

Suffocations

Suffocate: Lexical root, Grammatical category: Verb.
-ion: Bound morpheme (suffix), Derivational, Grammatical class changing, Function: form Nouns.
-s: Bound morpheme (suffix), Inflectional, Function : indicate the plural form of nouns.

Internationalism

inter-: Bound morpheme (prefix), Derivational, Grammatical class maintaining, Function: express reciprocality or intemediancy.
nation: Lexical root, Grammatical category: Noun.
-al: Bound morpheme (suffix), Derivational, Grammatical class changing, Function: form Adjectives.
-ism: Bound morpheme (suffix), Derivational, Grammatical class changing, Function : form Nouns.

Answers 2                     Exercise

Describe the italic affixes, whether they are derivational or inflectional. Affixes rules may help you out:

a. -acy   Derivational
b. -est     Inflectional
c. a-       Derivational
d. -ies    Inflectional
e. -ful     Derivational
f. agri-   Derivational
g. -ies     Inflectional
h. -er      Inflectional
i. -en       Derivational
j. -ics      Derivational
k. -ed      Inflectional
l. de-       Derivational
m. -en     Inflectional
n. -es       Inflectional

Answers 3                     Exercise

State whether the affixes are derivational or inflectional:

Words	Affixes	Der. / Inf.
happiness	-ness	Der.
unkind	un-	Der.
flowers	-s	Inf.
discourage	dis- -age	Der. Der.
amoral	a- -al	Der. Der.
readable	-able	Der.
accustomed	ac- -ed	Der. Inf.
perception	-ion	Der.
unbearable	un- -able	Der. Der.
happenings	-ing -s	Der. Inf.
pitiable	-able	Der.
greediness	-i -ness	Der. Der.
teacher	-er	Der.
untruthfulness	un- -th -ful -ness	Der. Der. Der. Der.
buses	-es	Inf.
appointee	-ee	Der.
clueless	-less	Der.
unhappier	un- -er	Der. Der.
merging (V) merging (N)	-ing -ing	Inf. Der.

Answers 4                     Exercise

Segment the following words and classify the morphemes associated with them as requested below:

Words	Roots	Derivational Morphemes		Inflectional Morphemes
		Class-maintaining	Class-changing
nationalisations	nation		-al, -ise, -ation	-s
uncharacteristically	character	un-, -al	-istic, -ly
reimbursment	burse	re-	im-, -ment
verbalized	verb		-al, -ize	-ed
autobiography	bio	auto-, -graphy
destigmatized	stigmat	de-	-tize	-ed

Answers 5                     Exercise

Match between the italicized part under A with one proper description from the list under B:

a. burial	3. derivational suffix
b. huckleberry	5. bound root
c. plagiarizes	1. inflectional suffix
d. misunderstood	8. derivational prefix
e. unluckily	4. free root

Answers 6                     Exercise

For each word below, draw a word tree:

1.  ambidextrous

2.  characterized

3.  insufferably

4.  contradictory

5.  underpinned

6.  dangerously

7.  thoughtless

8.  meaningfulness

9.  microorganisms

10.  retry

11.  sinkable

12. disinformational

13. demagnetizability

Answers 7                     Exercise

a) Draw tree diagrams for the following words:

construal

disappearances

irreplaceability

misconceive

indecipherable

redarken

b) Draw two tree diagrams for undarkenable to reveal its two meanings: “able to be less dark” and “unable to be made dark.”

able to be less dark

unable to be made dark

c) Do the same as (b) for unzippable to reveal its  two meanings: "unable to be zipped" and "able to be unzipped"

unable to be zipped

able to be unzipped