Session 6 Morphology

Watch and jot down 2 facts that you find useful for your conlang creation.

What is a morpheme?

• A unit of sound

• A unit of meaning

• A type of sentence structure

• A word's root or stem

Which of the following is a free morpheme in English? (perhaps more than 1 is correct)

• -ed (as in "loved")

• Ed (a name, short for Edward)

• ed- (as in "edit")

• add (a verb)

Which morpheme changes the grammatical category of a word?

• Inflectional

• Derivational

• Free

• Bound

Thinking in sounds only, which of the following is an allomorph of the English past tense morpheme? (more than 1)

• [t] as in walked

• [ɪd] as in waited

• [d] as in played

• [t] as in went

Inflectional morphemes change a word’s essential meaning.

• True

• False

1 morpheme always corresponds to 1 syllable in a modern Chinese Mandarin word.

• True

• False

Match the word formation process with an example in English

• Derivation

• brunch (breakfast & lunch)

• Clipping

• ice-cream

• Blending

• un-true

• Backformation

• edit (from editor)

• Compounding

• ad (from advertisement)

Match the word formation process with an example in English

• Initialism

• tsunami

• Conversion

• To empty (from adjective empty)

• Acronym

• • FOMO (Fear of missing out)

• Reduplication

• Bye-bye

• Borrowing

• WTO (World Trade Organisation)

What is an affix?

• A free morpheme

• A bound morpheme attached to a root

• A fixed morpheme that belongs to the stem

• A part of a compound word