Definition of a morpheme:1 it is a word or apart of a word that has meaning.2 it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful parts without violation of its meaning or without meaningless remainders.3 it recurs in differing verbal environments with a relatively stable meaning.First, we recognize it as a word and can find it listed as such in any dictionary. Second, it cant be divided without violation of meaning. For example, we can, by dividing straight stret, get the smaller meaningful forms of traittret,rateret,and ateet,but the meanings of these violate the meaning of straight. Furthermore, when we divide it in these ways we get the meaningless remainders of s,st,and str. Third, straight recurs with a relatively stable meaning in such environments as straightedge, straighten, and a straight line.
MORPHOLOGY – EXERCISES – KEY Identify the number of morphemes in each of the given words play unconditionally 11 excitingly replay indecisive 12 deactivates date impoliteness 13 maltreated strengthening honesty 14 gentlemanly weaken 10 cheaper 15 friendliest Identify the bound morphemes in each of the given words speaker -er delivery kingdom -dom revise phonemic -ic fertilizer idolize -ize dreamed selective -ive 10 undone Underline the stem in each of the given words womanly lighten endear endangered failure befriend famous Bostonian infamous 10 unfriendliness 3 -y re-, -vise -ize, -er -ed un-, {-D2} 11 personal 12 pre-war 13 subway 14 falsify 15 unenlivened (life) Describe the morphemes in the following quotations: ‘A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.’ day, worry, be, much, exhaust, week, work a, of, than, a, of adj forming morpheme -ing verb third person singular present simple morpheme, adj comparative morpheme Updated 21/3/2017 Page ‘With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.’ new, day, come, new, new, strong, think with, the, and class-changing noun-forming derivational morpheme –th, class-changing noun-forming derivational morpheme verb third person singular present simple morpheme –s, N plural -s Classify each word as: S (simple), C-BB (complex with bound forms), C-FB (complex with free form) or Comp (compound) Girl -ish long terminate porter sweetheart Connecticut react Updated 21/3/2017 C-FB S C-BB C-BB Comp S C-FB lioness high born 10 preclude 11 democracy 12 spirit 13 Well-done 14 receive C-FB Comp C-BB C-BB S Comp C-BB Page ... MORPHOLOGY – EXERCISES – KEY Identify the number of morphemes in each of the given words play unconditionally 11 excitingly replay... Updated 21/3/2017 Page ‘With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.’ new, day, come, new, new, strong, think with, the, and class-changing noun-forming derivational morpheme –th, class-changing... -er -ed un-, {-D2} 11 personal 12 pre-war 13 subway 14 falsify 15 unenlivened (life) Describe the morphemes in the following quotations: ‘A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.’