Modern Grammar - Assignment 6 James Madison University

Instructions: [This assignment will be marked only as an acceptable or unacceptable effort.]

1. For each of the following words, write down the number of morphemes it contains:
   1. fruitful
   2. baboon
   3. mistype
   4. deconstruction
   5. prewashed
   6. drumstick
   7. flew
2. For the morphemes below, identify the following characteristics (where applicable): root vs. affix, free vs bound; then also attempt to identify these additional characteristics (where applicable) based on the discussion of these characteristics in our textbook: grammatical vs. lexical, and inflectional vs. derivational.
   1. {-cur} as in "recur"
   2. {-er} as in "teacher"
   3. {-est} as in "quickest"
   4. {pencil} (the noun)
   5. {at} (the preposition)
   6. {mis-} as in "misguided"
3. Consider the following data from Dozoff, a language spoken only in the JMU Libraries:
   

   togpozz 'big party'	drupozz 'long party'
   togruf 'big assignment'	togrufin 'big assignments'

   1. List the five different morphemes in these Dozoff words and assign a meaning to each of them.
   2. Based on this data, how would you say 'long assignment' in Dozoff?