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    This document provides instructions for homework assignment 3 in Linguistics 201. Students are asked to analyze morphological structures of words, draw morphological trees, and identify parts of speech. They are to mark ungrammatical combinations of morphemes in words, explain why two word combinations are ungrammatical, and note any words that could be possible English words with explanations. Students also draw morphological trees for two words and analyze if the trees represent different meanings. Finally, students identify the part of speech of word roots in sample sentences and provide examples of typical usage.

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    Linguistics 201 Kathryn Flack

    Spring, 2007

    Homework 3 – Morphological analysis and tree drawing


    Due Friday, February 23

    1. Ungrammatical morpheme combinations

    1.1. Most of the following words are not actual words of English; some are not even possible
    grammatical words of English.
    • Mark the words that you think are ungrammatical in English with an asterisk, like
    this: *redeskly.
    • Circle the real English words (i.e. those that you’ve heard or used).

    speakhood misspeak exspeak speaking speaken


    childhood mischild exchild childing childen
    parrothood misparrot exparrot parroting parroten
    softhood missoft exsoft softing soften

    1.2. Choose two of the ungrammatical words, and explain why they are ungrammatical for
    you. In your answer, talk about how particular morphemes can and cannot combine
    grammatically; refer to the morpheme properties listed in section 1.4 of the book.

    a. Word:
    Why is it ungrammatical?

    b. Word:
    Why is it ungrammatical?

    1.3. If you think any of the words from 1.1 are possible in English, despite the fact that
    they’re not actual English words (that is, if you left any words both unstarred and
    uncircled), explain what they would mean, and why they’re possible English words (talk
    again about how morphemes can combine).

    a. Word: Meaning:
    Why is this a possible word?

    b. Word: Meaning:
    Why is this a possible word?
    2. Morphological trees

    2.1. For each of the following words, draw a tree diagram that represents the word’s
    morphological structure. Don’t forget to include part of speech labels where appropriate.

    a. resolidify b. unfriendly

    2.2. There are at least two possible trees that could be drawn for the word overreaction. Draw
    both of them below.

    Tree #1 Tree #2

    2.3. Do the structures represented by the two trees in 2.2 represent different meanings? Why
    or why not?
    3. Parts of speech

    In the following sentences, a root which usually has one part of speech (noun, verb, etc.) is used
    as another. For each sentence, use the properties of parts of speech in section 1.5 of the course
    packet to determine the part of speech of the root of the underlined word; explain which property
    you used. Also give an example sentence where the root acts like its usual part of speech.

    Example Our buddies seemed down with the plan.


    How is it used here? Part of speech: adjective
    How do you know? Adjectives follow “seemed”.
    How is it normally used? Part of speech: preposition
    Example sentence: My mom lives down the street.
    How do you know? In the list of prepositions; appears before a noun phrase.

    a. The platoon was tasked with destroying the bunker.


    How is it used here? Part of speech:
    How do you know?

    How is it normally used? Part of speech: ____________________


    Example sentence:

    How do you know?

    b. The red has a nice bouquet, but the white smells like somebody’s armpit.
    How is it used here? Part of speech:
    How do you know?

    How is it normally used? Part of speech: ____________________


    Example sentence:

    How do you know?

    c. They call New Orleans “The Big Easy”.


    How is it used here? Part of speech:
    How do you know?

    How is it normally used? Part of speech: ____________________


    Example sentence:

    How do you know?

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