Define the morphemes the differential meaning of which helps to distinguish between words in the given sets

Model: phraseology, ideology, mythology, neurology

THE morphemes- phrase-, ide(a)-, myth- and neuro- possess the differential meaning as each of them may serve to distinguish the word it forms from the words in the given set.

1 notebook, copybook, exercise book, textbook; 2) crossroads, cross-legged, crosswind, cross-current; 3) city-based, hospital-based, ocean-based, foreign-based; 4) forefoot, forehead, forepart, foreground; 5) raspberries, elderberries, strawberries, cranberries.

4 Classify the following words according to the part-of-speech meaning of their affixational morphemes.

ex: criticism - the affix -ism indicates that the derived word is a noun.

Suitability, hatless, accordingly, combination, befriend, sideways, hospitalize, boyhood, congratulatory, enlarge, northwards, spacious, bureaucracy, quarrelsome, clarify, breakage, drinkable, weaken.

5. Analyze the following words according to their morphemic types. Define the subtypes of polymorphic words. Classify polyradical words into two group:

1) words consisting of two or more roots with no affixational morphemes;

2) words containing two roots and one or more affixational morphemes,

Model- duck, illiterateness, back-bencher

The word duck is monomorphic. The word illiterateness is polymorphic, monoradical, prefixo-radical-suffixal. The word back-bencher is polymorphic, polyradical, contains two roots and one affixational morpheme

(group 2).

House, uncover, -dark-brown, disappointment, effective, black, disappointment, effective, black,

historian, book-keeper, cry, mistrust, unanswerable, home-sick, good, ex-wife, laughter-filled, unfortunately, age-long, manageability, short-sightedness.

6. Group the words according to the type of word-segmentability they may be referred to. Model: exceed, tablet, lifeless

Hostage, nameless, fraction, perceive, pocket, discuss, feminist, contain, overload, pioneer, underestimate, proceed, athlete, pretend, amoral, mirror, unfriendly, assist, gooseberry, obsess, carefulness, manic, attract, budget.

6.1. In case of conditional segmentability give words possessing the same morphemes.

Model: relieve

The word relieve can be conditionally segmented into two morphemes re-and -lieve which occur in a number of other words, e.g. re-lax, be-lieve.

6.2. In case of defective segmentabiljty identify the denotational meaning of affixational morphemes.

Mode' barbarism- the denotational meaning of the affix -ism is 'behaviour'.

7. Analyze the following words from the point of view of their ICs and UCs applying an affix or a root principle.

Model: uncommonly

The morphemic analysis of the word uncommonly is based on the application of the affix principle and includes the following stages:

uncommon- (IC) + -ly (strangely, sadly) (IC/UC);

(unsafe, unclean) (IC/UC) + -common (IC/UC). The word consists of 3 UCs.

Independence, beautifulness, unforgettable, ultra-creative, spotlessness, disrespectful, unladylike, disarmament, injustice, disobedience.

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