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Exercises
List the morphemes in each word below, and state whether each morpheme is free (F) or
bound (B).
1. creating 6. unhealthy
create ( ) un ( )
ing ( ) health ( )
y()
2. seaward 7. waiter
sea ( ) wait ( )
ward ( ) er ( )
3. wastage 8. reconsider
waste ( ) re ( )
age ( ) consider ( )
4. poetic 9. keys
poet ( ) key ( )
ic ( ) s()
modern ( ) in ( )
ize ( ) complete ( )
ion ( )
Word Trees
1. shipper 6. simply
2. disobey 7. jumping
3. resettled 8. digitizes
4. anticlimaxes 9. activity
5. disengagement 10. confrontational
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.