LING 201-Grondona
Assignment 4
Morphology
⦁ Consider each group of words in (a-e). For each group:
⦁ Isolate the affixes and stems in each group.
⦁ Name the part of speech (or category) of the root word to which the stem
belongs.
⦁ Say whether the affixation results in a word belonging to a different part of
speech.
⦁ State the part of speech of the resulting form.
Part of speech of the root change?
New part of speech
e.g. careless, hopeless, strapless _____noun____________ Y N
__adjective_______
⦁ Spiteful, healthful, truthful noun Y N adjective
⦁ unsure, untrue, unhappy adjective Y N adjective
⦁ retake, review, relive verb Y N verb
⦁ stoppable, fixable, laughable verb Y N adjective
⦁ automnal, hymnal, optional noun Y N Adjective
⦁ Consider the list of suffixes and the examples for each. For each suffix, determine:
⦁ the lexical category of the word whose stem the suffix combines with, and
⦁ the lexical category of the words resulting from the addition of the suffix.
Example: -ness: clumsiness, happiness, weakness
Category of the stem: adjective
Category of the resulting word: noun
⦁ -ify: solidify, intensify, purify, clarify, rarefy
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