1. Morphology (Review exercises)
Engl Dr. Nahla Nadeem

2. EXERCISE: DETERMINING THE ‘MEANING’ OF DERIVATIONAL AFFIXES.
Rule: Produce a formula like "noun +-ly ===> adjective" for each group of words. In other words, determine (i) what part of speech the root words were before the affix was added and (ii) what part of speech the words are after the affix has been added. 1. -ness: friendliness, happiness, restlessness, deviousness __________ + ness ====> __________ 2. -al: national, fictional, colonial, mortal,1 emotional __________ + -al ====> __________ 3. re-: reuse, rework, redo, reanalyze, replay re- + ____________ ====> __________ 4. mis-: misspell, misanalyze, mistrust, miscalculate mis- + ____________ ====> __________ 5. un-: untie, unroll, unwrap, undo, unlock un- + ____________ ====> __________ 6. un-: 2 unhappy, unresponsive, unlucky, ungrammatical

3. Content or function words?
Are these words content or function? Give what the word class of each: noun verb, article, adjective, article, preposition
Put (C) or (F) then the part of speech.
Other  F. smoothly 
Forget G. an 
Establishment  H. study 
With i. some 
friendly J. child 
O’Grady, 2009

4. Free & Bound Morphemes Discredit  dis (b) + credit (f) Discredit
Put a plus (+) sign between morphemes.
Label each as bound (b) or free (f)
Discredit  dis (b) + credit (f)
Using  Use (f) + ing (b)
Tricycle  Tri (b) + cycle
Delight Delight (f)
Justify  Just (f) + ify (b)
Discredit
Using
Tricycle
Delight
Justify

5. Free & Bound Morphemes Television Informatory Farming
Reformation
Ranch
Put a plus (+) sign between morphemes.
Label each as bound (b) or free (f)
Tele (b) + vision (f)
In (b) + form (f) + atory (b)
Farm (f) + ing (b)
Re (b) + form (f) + ation (b)
Ranch (f)

6. Exercise: Word class/ part of speech
Determine the word class of each of the following words.
Is it a content word of a function word?
Establishment a to
lovely
inconvenience
adversely
submit or
from
Noun
Determiner
Preposition
Adjective
Adverb
Verb
Conjunction

7. Looking at the AFFIX: Inflectional or Derivational?
impermeable
plagiarized
plagiarize
Cats
despair
fragility
slowest
Derivational prefix
Inflectional suffix
Derivational suffix

8. Looking at the AFFIX: Inflectional or Derivational?
premade
undo
whiten
beaten
oxen
slower
teacher
Derivational prefix
Derivational suffix
Inflectional suffix

9. Looking at the AFFIX: Inflectional or Derivational?
Place a plus (+) sign between each morpheme
Label each BM as derivational (D) on inflectional (I).
Bill’s
Running
Player
Action
Roughest
Comes
Friendly
BILL + ‘S (I)
RUN + ING (I)
PLAY + ER (D) *
ACT + ION (D)
ROUGH + EST (I)
COME + S (I)
FRIEND + LY (D)
Rowe & Levine, 2012