ТЕОРИЯ ЯЗЫКА

As shown in the previous unit, the morpheme  is the elementary meaningful

lingual unit built up from phonemes and used to make words. It has meaning, but
its meaning is abstract, significative, not concrete, or nominative, as is that of the
word.

Besides prefixes and suffixes, some other positional types of affix are
distinguished in linguistics: for example, regular vowel interchange which takes
place inside the root and transforms its meaning “from within” can be treated
as an infix, e.g.: a lexical infix – blood – to bleed; a grammatical infix – tooth –
teeth. Grammatical infixes are also defined as inner inflections as opposed to
grammatical suffixes which are called outer inflections. Since infixation is not a
productive (regular) means of word-building or word-changing in modern English,
it is more often seen as partial suppletivity. Full suppletivity takes place when
completely different roots are paradigmatically united, e.g.: go – went.

Задание 12

1) boy\boys, do\does, fix\fixes, cut\cuts

2) blood\bleed, tooth\teeth, man\men, woman\women

3) be\ was\were\been, good\better\the best.

Задание 6

CLEAR-ANCE
TRADITIONAL CLASSIFICATION DISTRIBUTIONAL CLASSIFICATION
Two-morpheme word, consisting of root Root “-clear-” – free, overt, additive,
“-clear-” and the lexical suffix “-ance” continuous
Suffix “-ance” – bound, additive, overt,
continuous