Inroduction to Linguistics - Assignment 5
James Madison University
Attempt to draw tree diagrams representing the morphological derivation of each of the following words (in other words, think carefully about the order in which these morphemes must be combined based on the intended meaning of the final word and the grammatical characteristics of the indidivual morphemes):
glorious
fashionably
prewashed
inconceivably
distrustfulness
meaningful (do you notice what is unusual about this one? :) )
Try to think of an example of a word that is morphologically marked as a verb but also used as a noun and another that is morphologically marked as a noun but also used as a verb.
