Practice Exercises in Morphology Linguistics 201

Free and Bound Morphemes List the morphemes in each word below, and state whether each morpheme is free (F) or bound (B). 1. creating 6. unhealthy create (F) un (B) ing (B) health (F) y (B) 2. seaward 7. waiter sea (F) wait (F) ward (B) er (B) 3. wastage 8. reconsider waste (F) re (B) age (B) consider (F) 4. poetic 9. keys poet (F) key (F) ic (B) s (B) 5. modernize 10. incompletion modern (F) in (B) ize (B) complete (F) ion (B)

Word Trees For each word below, draw a word tree. 1. shipper 6. simply 2. disobey 7. jumping 3. resettled 8. digitizes 4. anticlimaxes 9. activity 5. disengagement 10. confrontational 1. N 2. V V DAff DAff V ship er dis obey 3. V V DAff V IAff re settle d 4. N N DAff N IAff anti climax es 5. 3. N V DAff V DAff dis engage ment

6. Adv 7. V Adj DAff V IAff simple y jump ing For #7, “jumping” could also be either a noun (“Jumping over the water was dangerous”) or an adjective (“The jumping bunnies looked ridiculous.”) In both of these cases, “ing” is a derivational affix. 8. V V N DAff IAff digit ize s 9. N Adj V DAff DAff act ive ity 10. Adj N V DAff DAff confront ation al