Ling 390 - Intro to Linguistics - Winter 2005 Class 1 - Monday, January 3, 2005

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Morphology Practice
Morphology Practice Exercise 2, p. 147
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Morphology Practice
Morphology Practice Exercise 2, p. 147
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Morphology Practice
Morphology Practice Exercise 4, p. 148
-am
I
you (SG)
we
you (PL)
they
not
was/were ing
-i
-im
-id
-and
na-
mi-
mixaridand
They were buying
You (SG) did not buy
You (SG) were buying
naxaridi
mixaridi
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Morphology Practice Exercise 13 Indicate
whether the words in the following groups are
related by the process of derivation or
inflection
a) go, goes, going, gone
b) discover, discovery, discoverer, discoverable, discoverability
c) lovely, lovelier, loveliest
d) inventor, inventors, inventors, inventors
e) democracy, democrat, democratic, democratize
inflection
derivation
inflection
inflection
derivation
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Morphology Practice Exercise 14 Circle the
inflectional affixes and underline derivation
affixes
a) The farmers cows escaped.
b) It was raining.
c) Those socks are inexpensive.
d) Jim needs the newer copy.
e) The strongest rower continued.
f) The pitbull has bitten the cyclist.
g) She quickly closed the book.
h) The alphabetization went well.
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Morphology Practice Exercise 19 Identify the
morphological phenomenon
a) backformation
b) derivation
c) blending
d) compounding
e) conversion
f) clipping
g) blending
h) derivation
i.) compounding
j) clipping
k) conversion
l) blending
m) acronym
n) clipping
o) blending
p) clipping
q) cliticization
r) initialism
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Morphology Practice Exercise 20 Create your
own words Fun with morphological processes!
a) USOB
b) sloosh
c) bubblewrap
d) cheese string
e) backform