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. elephant
   3. deconstruction
   4. prewashed
   5. drumstick
   6. flew
2. Identify the relevant characteristics (i.e., where applicable, free vs bound, stem (root) vs. affix, grammatical vs. lexical, and inflectional vs. derivational) of the following English morphemes:
   1. {-cur} as in "recur"
   2. {-er} as in "teacher"
   3. {-est} as in "quickest"
   4. {at} (the preposition)
   5. {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?