Exercise On Morphology
Exercise On Morphology
Exercise On Morphology
Linguistics 201
List the morphemes in each word below, and state whether each morpheme is free (F) or
bound (B).
1. creating 6. unhealthy
2. seaward 7. waiter
3. wastage 8. reconsider
4. poetic 9. keys
1. shipper 6. simply
2. disobey 7. jumping
3. resettled 8. digitizes
4. anticlimaxes 9. activity
5. disengagement 10. confrontational
1. N 2. V
V DAff DAff V
3. V
DAff V IAff
re settle d
4. N
DAff N IAff
anti climax es
5. 3. N
DAff V DAff
For #7, “jumping” could also be either a noun (“Jumping over the water was dangerous”)
or an adjective (“The jumping bunnies looked ridiculous.”) In both of these cases, “ing”
is a derivational affix.
8. V
N DAff IAff
digit ize s
9. N
Adj
V DAff DAff
10. Adj
V DAff DAff
confront ation al
Practice Exercises in Morphology III
Linguistics 201
I. Morphological Analysis
From the following data sets, identify the strings of sounds which correspond to the
morphemes in each language.
Swahili
Swahili is a Bantu language which is spoken primarily in East Africa. There are
approximately 800,000 native speakers of Swahili, and some 30,000,000 people (!)
worldwide speak Swahili as a second language.