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What word formation process do all the following words share? Demo (demonstration), cello (violoncello), hi-fi (high fidelity), ad (advertisement), info (information), flu (influenza)?
All of them are clipped words! Clipping!
Words like "rainbow" or "greenhouse" experience the word formation process known as:
Compounding becasue the words have two free morphemes each!
The word "sparsity" was formed by the combination of "sparseness" and "scarcity", so it was formed through a process of :
blending
Is the following statement true or false. Why? Conjunctions, Prepositions, Articles and Pronouns are examples of free morphemes.
Yes, they are. These are function words that can stand on their own. They do not need anything to have full meaning.
Is the following statement true or false? why? "Suffixes can be derivational and inflectional"
True. Suffixes go after the root or stem of a word and they can be derivational like -ment, -al, -ful or inflectional like -s (for plural), or -ed (for past)
ICETEX, UNESCO, UNICA, TESOL are examples of abbreviations. The fact that they can be pronounced as one word gives them the title of :
Acronyms. These are the ones we can pronounce as one word!
The smallest unit of meaning in language is called:
Morpheme
Is the following statement true or false? The word "books" has a free morpheme and an inflectional morpheme
True! "book" is the free morpheme and "-s" is the inflectional morpheme that indicates plural!
There are 8 inflectional morphemes in English. Can you name 2 of them?
"-s/-es" (plural), "-s/-es" (third person in verbs), -ing (progressive), `s (possesive), -ed (past), -en (participle), -er (comparative) , "-est" (superlative)
What kind of morphemes are: "-ment", "-ly", "-al", "-ion"?
They are derivational bound morphemes or suffixes
What kind of morphemes are : "bi-", "anti-", "multi-", "mis-"?
They are derivational bound morphemes or prefixes.
Is the following statement true or false: In the word "usefulness", there is a free morpheme (root) and 2 derivational bound morphemes.
True! "use" (root) "-ful" (derivational bound morpheme or suffix) "-ness" (derivational bound morphemes or suffix)
The word "notebook" has 2 free morphemes. Is this true or false?
It is true!. "note" (free morpheme) and "book" (free morpheme). Most compound words are formed by 2 or more free morphemes!
The words "flip-flops", "bye-bye" and "teeny-tiny" experience the WFP called:
Reduplication
How would you analyse the word "remake" morphologically?
The word "remake" is made of a prefix (-re) that means "again" and the free morpheme or root "make". Remake = to make again
What morpheme would you add to the word "respectful" to make its opposite?
-dis
