Morphemes

Morphology studies ___.

• sentence formation

• word formation

• the meaning of words

• word pronunciation

How many morphemes are there in the following words?

Happy

• 2

• 1

• 3

What's the correct morphological representation in the following words. ( root - affixes )

REPEATED

• repeat - ed

• re - peat - ed

• re - peated

Overlooking

• ov - er - look - ing

• over - looking

• overlook - ing

• over - look - ing

In the words "recollection, idealistic, and ex-prisoner", "re-, -ion, -ist, -ic, ex-, and -er" are _________.

• a free root

• a bound root

• an inflectional affix

• a derivational affix

The words “take” and “table” are called _____ because they can occur unattached.

• free words

• bound morphemes

• free morphemes

• inflectional morphemes

More than one variant, which can realize some morphemes according to the position in a word, are termed __________ .

• phonemes

• allomorphs

• morphs

• phones

_________ modify the meaning of the stem, but usually do not change the part of speech of the original word.

• Prefixes

• Suffixes

• Roots

• Affixes

There are three subtypes of affixes are: prefix, suffix and _______.

• derivational affix

• inflectional affix

• back-formation

• infix