(English) Morphology
These meaningful strings of phones can be free or bound.
What are morphemes?
Given this, a prefix can never be a head.
What is the Right Hand Head Rule?
This word formation process is nonononot found in English.
What is partial reduplication?
This type of morpheme is the German plural morpheme.
(1) hund 'dog'; hunde 'dogs'
(2) frau 'woman'; frauen 'women'
(3) feld 'field'; felder 'fields'
What is a suffix?
Given the words in (1), this is the morphological rule for the prefix under-
(1) underwhelm, understand, underscore, underlie.
What is:
V -> under + V
There are ____ morphemes in the following words:
underpay, dogs, immature, unzip, flowered.
What is 2?
(Some of) these can change the category of the newly-formed word.
What are suffixes?
According to a general rule of English, this morpheme is the head of a newly formed word.
What is the rightmost/last morpheme?
This is the morphological rule for the suffix -at/-et in Hungarian.
(1) épül 'build' (v); épület 'building' (n)
(2) felel 'answer' (v); felelet 'answer' (n)
(3) mond 'say' (v); mondat 'sentence' (n)
What is:
N -> V + et
These affixes never change the category of a newly formed word.
What is a prefix?
This is the morphological tree structure for "reignite".
See Image 1.
Given the words in (1), this is the morphological rule for the suffix -en in English.
(1) lighten, soften, straighten, flatten.
What is:
V -> A + -en ?
Words formed by compounding bear stress on the _____ syllable.
What is first?
This is the morphological tree structure for 'frauen'.
See Image 3.
The definitions of these words suggests they were formed by this word-formation process.
1. Flip: to give a blow with something thin and flexible.
2. Flap: to strike with something broad and loose.
3. Flop: to fall or drop heavily.
What is ablaut?
-est, -en and -ing are _____ morphemes in English.
(1) healthiest, eaten, understanding
What are inflectional affixes?
Also meaning 'to fasten' or 'to insert firmly', this type of affix can form new words.
What is 'infix'?
This Latin head is bound to confuse.
(1) inflate, deflate
What is -flate?
This word formation process produces "similative plurals" in Turkish (1) and Persian (2).
(1) bulut 'cloud'; bulut mulut 'clouds and the like'
(2) ketâb 'book'; ketâb metâb 'books and things'
What is partial reduplication?
Looking only at the bolded words in (1), -ing is a(n) _____ affix in English.
(1) The watching of television is a popular evening pastime.
(2) The reading of books is a good way to spend the weekend.
(3) The making of this quiz took a long time.
What is derivational?
This is the morphological tree structure for "deniability".
See Image 2.
-ful, -ing and -al are ______ morphemes in English.
(1) Wonderfully, openings, nationality
What are derivational affixes?
/ðɪs wɜɹd fɔɹmeɪʃɘn pɹɑsɛs t͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒɨs ə foʊnim wɪðɪn ə mɔɹfim/
What is ablaut?
This morpheme means 'in/on' or 'at' in Turkish.
(1) akl 'mind'; aklinde 'in his head'
(2) bahçe 'garden'; bahçedeki 'in the garden'
(3) biz 'our'; bizde 'at ours'
(4) arka 'back'; arkamɪzdaki 'behind us'
What is -de?
This is the morphological tree structure for 'underwhelming'.
See Image 4.