Introduction to Linguistics - Assignment 4

James Madison University

  1. 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 individual morphemes):
    1. glorious
    2. fashionably
    3. prewashed
    4. inconceivably
    5. distrustfulness
    6. meaningful (do you notice what is unusual about this one? :) )
    7. fourths
    8. Sally's
  2. 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.
  3. Use this link to download a small data sample for the Turkish language. Answer the morphological analysis questions included with the data: Turkish Questions







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