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Question 1

Suggested Reading?

Answer 1

• Haspelmath, 2013. Understanding
Morphology …and……
Plag, 2003. Word-formation in English

Question 2

What are SIMPLEX words? Give example

Answer 2

One meaningful element, like ‘door’

Question 3

What are COMPLEX words? Give example

Answer 3

They have more than one meaningful element like ‘walked’, ‘maddening’

Question 4

The smallest meaningful constituents of words are called …… (the broken down part like ‘-ed’, ‘pre-‘.

Answer 4

morphemes.

Question 5

Monomorphemic words are composed of only one morpheme. eg….

Answer 5

establish

Question 6

Polymorphemic words are composed of more than one morpheme, eg…..

Answer 6

antidisestablishmentarianism

Question 7

What is morphology?

Answer 7

How morphemes are put together to form words.

Study of the internal structure of words.

Question 8

______morphemes can stand on their own?

Answer 8

Free

Question 9

______morphemes cannot stand on their own?

Answer 9

Bound

Question 10

establish, book, pretty are examples of ______ morphemes

Answer 10

free

Question 11

-es as in establishes, -s as in books, -er as in prettier are examples of _______ morphemes.

Answer 11

bound

Question 12

_____morphemes designate specific categories of things, actions,
situations or attributes

Answer 12

lexical

Question 13

grammatical morphemes express grammatical relationships between a word and its context, eg….

Answer 13

What does -es express in establishes?
What does -s express in books?
What does -er express in prettier?