How does distributional meaning of the morphemes below affect the lexical meaning of the whole word?

bypass, passby; layout, outlay; fall-rise, rise-fall; outbreak, breakout; falldown, downfall; overrun, runover; stand-up, upstand; upturn, turnup; day off, off-day.

8. Break up the italisized morphemes into free and bound ones:

sharp ly, stup id, de scribe, un true, aggrava tion, wolf ling, board ing, boy hood, be head, arrog ance, char ity, cour age, cow ard, dis tort, in volve; no tion, leg ible, toler able.

9.* Find pseudo-morphemes and unique roots in the set:

hamlet, detain, cranberry, Friday, pocket, respect, pioneer, resist, relieve, exceed, budget, pumpkin.

10.* Identify the linguistic status of the italisized morphs:

polyglot, homonym, philology, television, monogamous, micro wave, pseudo -scientific, autograph, multi national, agronomy, theophany, chronometry, cosmodrome, telegenic,tourist- conscious.

11.* Which unit does not belong to the set from the morphological point of view?

1) collateral, collage, collaborate, collapse;

2) brotherhood, neighbourhood, manhood, priesthood;

3) tearful, spiteful, dreadful, handful;

4) inedible, inside, insert, income;

5) appointment, involvement, compliment, arrangement;

6) worship, kinship, friendship, partnership, dealership;

7) ringlet, cloudlet, piglet, hamlet;

8) enjoyment, management, document, statement;

9) likewise, otherwise, chequerwise, profitwise;

10) harshly, friendly, manly, fatherly.

12.* Group the words according to the type of segmentability they may be referred to:

prevail, prewar, mulberry, blackberry, raspberry, conceive, receive, furious, subtract, distract, streamlet, streamline, tablet, tablecloth, hostage, hostess, obsess, obstruct, posess, fraction, centralise, respect, support, disqualify, impress, depose, unwrap, educative, advertise, delete.

13. Determine the number of Ultimate Constituents in each word:

unforgetfulness, reassuringly, inappropriate, recognizable, moonlighter, statesman, locket, antidisestablishmentarianism, bi-monthly, coopt.

14. Subject the following words to morphemic analysis:

grudgingly, book-shelves, book-keeper, analytical, unchanging, righteousness, painting, ceiling, marketer, schoolboishness, cost price, de-americanization, reload, handout, price.

15. Subject the following words to derivational analysis:

ad, deduce, well-off, stuck up, straight-haired, windscreen, rep, wannabe, fattism,undercarriage,abdominoplasty, postgraduate, destructive, enthuse, exceedingly, brunch, far-flung, amt.

16. Study the cases of morphological misanalysis (or false etymology):

1) -burger in cheeseburger, pizzaburger, salmonburger, steakburger < hamburger (short for Hamburger steak) as if it were composed ham plus - burger;

2) -(a)holic in workaholic, sugarholic < alcoholic;

3) -kini in monokini < bikini from the Bikini Atolls in the Marshal Islandshas been misanalyzed as if it had the prefix - bi.

4) -ton in singleton, simpleton as in names like Washington.


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