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Homework Answers – Chapter 2: Morphology
2c. hyperactivity:
hyper +
act + ive +
hypertension actor native
hyperbole
action passive
N->Adj
ity
nativity
passivity
Adj->N
3A. The Spanish infinitive morpheme: -ar; the English counterpart: ‘to’
B. verb->adjective morpheme: -able; means: to be able
C. verb->noun morphemes: -acion, or -ador; means: the thing caused by the verb, or the
one who performs the action of the verb
4e. *Two shevelled tourists entered the small village.
- “shevelled” is a bound morpheme; although we recognize shevelled as
derived from dishevelled and correctly identify dis- as a morpheme signifying
the opposite of the word it’s attached to, shevelled only has meaning in this
one form, dishevelled.
6.
Affix
-dom
Words
Freedom, wisdom,
Meaning
A state or condition
Word Class
N, adj->N
-ese
Legalese, Chinese, Lebanese
Indicating origin
N, adj->adj
-ize
Minimize, rationalize
To make
Adj ->V
dys-
Dyslexia, dysfunctional,
dystopia
Impairment, etc
N, adj
mega-
Megabyte, megaphone,
megaton
Specific measure of one
million, generally very big
N
para-
Paradox, paraphrase,
paradigm
Beside, beyond
N
12A. Morphemes indicating 3rd person singular present: -e, -ne, -je, -i, -a
B. Morphemes indicating the 3rd pers. sing. Past: -l, -el, -al
C. Morphemes indicating the 1st pers. sing. present: -u, -nu, -ji, -im, -am
D. Morphemes indicating the imperative: ø, -ni, -j, -ej
E. Roots: nes, tisk, kry, saz, del
Text Questions
7a. to form an infinitive in Dutch: root + -en
b. to form the Dutch past participle form: ge- + root + -d (this is a circumfix, not a prefix
and a suffix; without both morphemes, no meaning is added)
8a. nouns: -toto ‘child’, -tu ‘person’, -kapu ‘basket’, -su ‘knife’;
verbs: -fika ‘to arrive’, -lala ‘to sleep’, -anguka ‘to fall’;
prefixes: m- attached to singular nouns of class 1, a- attached to verbs when the subject is
a singular noun of class 1, wa- plural prefix for nouns and verbs of class 1, me- prefix
indicating past tense, na- prefix indicating present tense, ta- prefix indicating future
tense, ki- prefix attached to singular nouns and verbs of class 2, vi- prefix attached to
plural nouns and verbs of class 2
b. The verb is constructed: class/number prefix + tense prefix + verb
c1. The child is falling: mtoto anaanguka
2. The baskets have arrived: vikapu vimefika
3. The person will fall: mtu ataanguka
13Ba. I – -vunga
b. you (sing) – -vutit
c. she/he/it – -vuq
d. see – takue. work – sanaf. know – quajima
g. want to – -jumah. start to – -sii. be (is/am/are) – -uj. father – ataata
C. I am a teacher: ilinniaqtittijiuvunga
You eat: nirivutit
I start to think: isumasivunga
D. Gender is unspecified.
The data available does not allow for an analysis of tense because all words are in the
same tense.
The indefinite article ‘a’ is indicated by the morpheme ‘u’, attached as a suffix to the
noun.