15. Identify the Inflectional and Derivational morphemes in the following examples.
The orderly watched the captain give him sharp orders.
-ly-derivational morpheme
-s-inflectional morpheme
-ed-inflectional morpheme
The Captain ordered the young soldier to get the horses.
-ed-inflectional morpheme
-s-inflectional morpheme
16. Identify morphological Haplology in the following examples.
a. the cats the dogs the churches
s z әz
b. the cat’s ears the dog’s paws the church’ s windows
/s/ /z/ /әz/
c. the cats’ ears the dogs’ paws the churches’ windows
cat+s dog+s church+es
d. the oxen’s ears the mice’s paws the children’s toys
ox+en mouse-mice child (r)+en
root+inflec.affix root+inflec.affix
точно не знаю правильно ли это…
17. State the morphological concept which is called ‘syncretism’ in the
following examples:
Present past past participle
a) walk walked walked
s yncretism
b) see saw seen
no syncretism
c) talk talked talked
syncretism
d) take took taken
no syncretism
18. Examine carefully the following sentence and list five free and bound morphemes that occur in the sentence:
Mr. Nickleby shook his head, and motioning them all out of the room, embraced his wife and children, and having pressed them by turns to his languidly beating heart, sank exhausted on his pillow. ( Ch. Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby ).
Motion; embrace; press; turn; languid; beat; exhaust;-free morpheme
-ing;-ed;-s;-ly;-bound morpheme
19. In English the verb agrees with the subject in number, indicate the agreement markers in the following examples:
a. The teacher is coming. To be -3rd person singular
b. The teachers are coming. To be –3rd person plural
c. The woman is coming. To be-3rd person singular
d. The women are coming. To be-3rd person plural
20. Explain why the two sentences in the examples below differ in meaning although they contain exactly the same words.
a. The children tickled the clown.- ambiguous sentence
b. The clown tickled the children.
In these two sentences they are different because of their deep structure, according to their surface structure they are similar. In the first sentence the subject is children but in the second is clown. The first sentence is ambiguous.
c. The student opened the door for the teacher.
d. The teacher opened the door for the student.- ambiguous sentence.
In these two sentences they are different because of their deep structure, according to their surface structure they are similar. In the first sentence the subject is student but in the second is teacher. The second sentence is ambiguous.