“Morphology: The Analysis of Word Structure”

William O´Grady & Videa P. de Guzman

(From O´Grady, W., Dobrovsky & F. Katamba (1996) Contemporary Linguistics. Longman)
STUDY GUIDE

Let´s discuss the following questions.

1) What is morphology?
2) What is a root?
3) What is a morpheme? Exemplify.
4) How do free and bound morphemes compare?
5) What is an allomorph?
6) What is a root?
7) What is an affix?
8) What is a base? Is it the same as a root?
9) Why is English said to be word-based?
10) What is a bound root?
11) What is affixation? What sort of affixes are there?
12) What is a clitic?
13) How can clitics be subclassified?
14) How do clitcs differ from suffixes?
15) Define and exemplify “internal change”.
16) Define and exemplify “suppletion”.
17) Provide examples of words in English which can undergo stress shift to reflect a change of category.
18) Define and exemplify “compounding”.
19) What are “cranberry morphemes”?
20) How does derivation operate?
21) Provide examples of complex derivations and explain them.
22) Exemplify some constraints on derivation.
23) What two types of derivational affixes are discussed in the text?
24) What is compounding? How does it work?
25) How can compounds be told from non-compounds?
26) How do endo- and exo-centric compounds compare?
27) Define and exemplify “conversion” and “zero derivation”.
28) Define and exemplify “clipping”.
29) Define and exemplify “blends”.
30) What is “backformation”?
31) How are acronyms formed?
32) Define and exemplify “onomatopoeic words”.
33) How does coinage work?
34) How does inflection differ from derivation?
35) What are the inflectional affixes of the English language?

Sergio F. Rodríguez