323 Exercises

Week 6

Answer Sheet

Complete exercise 3 on page 84, (a-b).

conversion:

plan

reject

concrete

table

breakfast

compound:

teapot

milkman

breakfast

bio-science

petticoat

Guinea-pig

tragi-comedy

hardwood

microwave

paratrooper

suffixation:

paratrooper

telegraph

troublesome

hardship

compound morphemes (probably and acceptably conversion)

advice, advise

blood, bleed

song, sing

 

Complete exercise 1 on page 109, (a-b).

a)

-al: noun --> adjective

-y: noun, adjective -> noun

-er (1): noun --> noun

-er (2): noun --> noun (techn.: slate N --> slate V --> slater N.

-er (3): verb - noun (stem) -> noun (word)

-er (4): adjective -> adjective

 

b)

primary, non-neutral: +y, +al (consonant change, stress shift)

secondary, netural: #er (no change to stem).

Determine the root, stem, base, and affixes (suffix and prefix) for the following words; what is the category of the word form?:

1. jump: root, base, stem; verb (also noun)
2. refries: re- prefix; fry: root, base, -(e)s: suffix; re+fry: base, stem; verb
3. unhappyness: un- prefix; happy: root, base; ness: suffix; happy+ness: base; un+happy+ness: base, stem; noun
4. candid: cand: root, base; -id: suffix; cand+id: base, stem; adjective.
5. construction. con-: prefix; struc: root, base; -t: suffix; -ion: suffix; con+struc: base; con+struc+t: base; con+sturc+t+ion: base, stem; noun.

What is the function of each affix (inflectional, derivational, formative)? If there are any formative morphemes, are any of them stem extenders? If so, note it above.

inflectional: -(e)s

derivational: re-, un-, -ness, con-, -ion, -id

formative: -t (stem extender).

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