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Morphology Seminar 1Answer the following questions:

1. What are the units of analysis? What are the respective

levels called? Which branch of Linguistics deals witheach?

2. What is morpheme?3. How are grammatical units described?

4. What is a word?. How many senses does !word" have?

#. What is a type? $ to%en? $ lemma?&. What groups 'families( of words are described by

)orphology?*. +ive e,amples of closed - open classes of words and

e,plain.. Which are the basic word formation processes?

1/. Which are the units larger than the word?11. Which are the 0uestions to as% in order to identify the

word class a word belongs to?12. Which are the basic groups of nouns?

13. What are the functions of nouns?14. What are the basic meanings of nouns?

1. Which are the classes of verbs?

1#. What are the functions of verbs?1&. What are the basic meanings of verbs?

1*. +ive e,amples of cases when one word can be said tobelong to more than one class.

1. List the types of pronouns and give e,amples.2/. Which are the primary auxiliaries? Modal

auxiliaries? What is the difference between the twoclasses in terms of their paradigm?

21. What is the role of the wh-words? When are theyused?

22. Which are the single word classes?23. What is necessary in order to identify the class a word

belongs to in nglish?24. What is the linguistic term for a phrase that is part of

the structure of another linguistic phrase?2. How many basic types of phrases are there in nglish?

2#. What is the relation between the H$ and the otherelements in a phrase?

Exercise 1.

How many word types and how many to%ens are there in the following sentencesThe birds sang and the bells rang, the folks were all happy and the month was May?

Exercise 2.dentify the morphemes and their type 'bound or free5 inflectional or derivational(a( cats6 b( milder c( bicycle6 d( broomstick6 e( unhappy6 f( unhappier

Exercise

ivide the words into their component morphemes

a( reconditioned6 b( thickeners6 c( environmental6 d( rationalisation

Exercise !7ranslate the compounds into 8omanian a( career change opportunity6 b(glass crack growth rate6 c(project team managementknow-how.

Exercise "

$nalyse the word formation processes involved in the creation of the following 'both meaning !firing an employee"( a(decruitement6 b( outplacement

Exercise #How many word classes can the following belong to? 9upport your answer with e,amples of your own

fear after late $ac% $etter

Exercise &$naly:e the structure of the following sentences

a( He even sent them a tape of the show. b( saw one of your grandchildren the other day.

Exercise 'nsert and then analy:e the determiners in the following te,t.....woman pulls....boy by.....little hand towards.....escalator leading down to.....;iccadilly Line. ....scrawled message

greets........unwary traveller.......morning.