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MORPHOLOGY

2nd Group :
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Niken Anastasia
Rosna Dewi. H Sri Mulyaningsih

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Suci Setiani

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Exercise 3 1. Indentify the different word-formation processes involved in producing each of underlined words in these sentences. (a) have you met Julius? Hes staying in this motel this week. (b) May I use your fax? Mine is broken.

(c) The policemen have come to empty the room.


ANSWER

a. Blends

: motel = motor + hotel

b. Truncation (clipping) : Fax = faxcimile c. Compound :Policemen = police + men

Morphology

Explaination
MORPHEME : The morpheme is the smallest unit that relates sound and meaning. BLENDS : process of creating a new word by combining the parts of two different words, usually the beginning of one word and the end of another. TRUNCATION (clipping) : process of creating new words by shortening parts of longer words. COMPOUND : The combination of two free forms.

2.

Devided the following words by placing a + between their separate morphemes. (a) Uninspired (b) Coordinators (c) Quietly

(d) Miscommunication
ANSWER

a. Un inspire ed (3 pieces) b. Co ordinate or s (4 pieces) c. Quiet ly (2 pieces) d. Mis communicate ion (3 pieces)

Morphology

3. Write the one proper description from the list under B for the italicized part of each word in A. A B a. Discontinue 1. Free Root b. Sharpen 2. Bound Root c. Breeze 3. Inflectional suffix d. Walked 4. Derivational sufix 5. Derivational prefix

ANSWER
a. Because discontinue consist of two morphemes, Dis-continue. b. Sharp is adjective, and sharpen is verb. So, grammar from sharp and sharpen is change from adjective to verb. Its call Derivational

suffix
c. Breeze is Free Root without prefix and suffix. d. Walk and walked is verb, but walked is past participle from walk. The grammar is not change, theyre still verb. so, its call

Inflectional suffix.

Morphology

5.

What are the derivational morphemes in the following sentence?


Finally, the tourists managed to find a place where they can see all parts the beautiful city. ANSWER

Derivational morphemes create new word. 1. Finally : Final = adjective

Finally = adverb So, it changes the grammar from adjective to adverb 2. Beautiful : beauty = noun beautiful = adjective So, it changes the grammar from noun to adjective

Morphology

QUESTION PERIOD

Morphology

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