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 create (F) ing (B) 2. seaward sea (F) ward (B) 3. wastage waste (F) age (B) 4. poetic poet (F) ic (B) 5. modernize modern (F) ize (B) 9. keys key (F) s (B) 10. incompletion in (B) complete (F) ion (B) 6. unhealthy un (B) health (F) y (B) 7. waiter wait (F) er (B) 8. reconsider re (B) consider (F)

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

6. Adj simple

Adv DAff y

7. V jump

V IAff 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 N digit 9. Adj V act 10. N V confront DAff ation DAff al DAff ive Adj DAff ity DAff ize N IAff s V