Morphology 2

The suffix -er in English is often called...

• an agentive suffix.

• an agentive prefix.

• a beautiful base.

The ability to create new words is called....

• predication.

• procreation.

• productivity.

Suffixes often change the word-class, whereas prefixes do so in few cases only.

• true

• false

Compounding is the process of ...

• clipping.

• combining two or more words to form a new word.

• only keeping the initial letters of two words.

Pick all compounds.

• willmill

• IT

• fast-food

• blackboard

Compounds have one element that is sematically and grammatically more important. It is called ...

• branch.

• head.

• base.

In English compounds, the head is usually the right-hand element. Left-hand elements provide additional information and are called...

• modifiers.

• specifier.

• inflectional markers.

Conversion is...

• zero-affixation.

• the process of changing words in word-class without any change in form.

• a non-concatenative process.

Words (besides names) that are truncated are called...

• trunkings.

• clippings.

• fillings.

Type in the truncated version of the word doctor.