Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla

Facultad de Lenguas
Licenciatura en la Enseñanza del Inglés

Universidad Autónoma de Puebla

Facultad de lenguas

Licenciatura en la Enseñanza del Inglés

Morfología y Sintaxis

Study questions on morphology

Profesor Gaspar Ramírez –Cabrera

Alumna González Aquino Sandra Kristhel

13/02/2024
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Facultad de Lenguas
Licenciatura en la Enseñanza del Inglés

STUDY QUESTIONS ON MORPHOLOGY

Study questions

1 What are the functional morphemes in the following sentence?

When he arrived in the morning, the old man had an umbrella and a large plastic bag full of
books.

2 (a) List the bound morphemes in these words:

Fear less ly mis lead s pre view er short ened un happi er

Noun Suff. Suff. Pref. Verb Suff. Pref Verb Suff. Adj. Suff. Suff. Pref. Adj. Suff.
.

Bound Bound Bound Bound Bound Bound Bound Bound Bound Bound

(b) Which of these words contains an allomorph of the morpheme “past tense”: are, have,
must, sitting, waits?
 Are → Were
 Have → Had
 Must → Had to
 Sitting → Sat
 Waits → Waited

3 What are the inflectional morphemes in these expressions?

(a) Have you eaten yet?

Eat → en → Eaten

Verb fuctional Verb

(b) Do you know how long I’ve been waiting?

Wait → ing → Waiting

Verb fuctional Verb

(c) She’s younger than me and always dresses in the latest style.
Young → er → Younger

Adj. fuctional Adj.

(d) We looked through my grandmother’s old photo albums.

Look → ed → Looked

Verb fuctional Verb

Grandmother → „s → Grandmother‟s
Noun
Noun fuctional
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4 What are the allomorphs of the morpheme “plural” in this set of English words: criteria,
dogs, oxen, deer, judges, stimuli?
 Criteria
 Dogs
 Oxen
 Deer/ Deer
 Judges
 Stimuli

5 What is reduplication?
R= An often grammatically functional repetition of a radical element or a part of it occurring
usually at the beginning of a word and often accompanied by change of the radical vowel.

6 Provide equivalent forms, in the languages listed, for the English translations
shown on the right below.

Ganda omuloŋgo (“twin”) – (“twins”) _Abalongo____

Ilocano tawta´wa (“windows”) – (“window”) _Tawa_______
Kanuri nəmkəjˇi (“sweetness”) – (“sweet”) _ Kəjˇi ______
Tagalog bili (“buy”) – (“will buy”) _Bilili________
Tagalog kain (“eat”) – (“Eat!”) _Kumain!____