Introduction to Linguistics - Assignment 2

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[This assignment will be marked only as an acceptable or unacceptable effort.] After reading Chapter 2, do your best with each of the following excercises.

  1. List at least 5 content words in English (other than those examples mentioned in your text or in other such references) that you believe to be monomorphemic, including at least two that are multisyllabic.
  2. List at least 5 content words in English that you believe to be polymorphemic, including at least two that are monosyllabic.
  3. Find and write down a sentence at least 12 words long from a written source (a favorite novel or story?) and then remove all the words that you think are function words. To what exent is the basic meaning of the sentence still intact? What is lost?







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