Assignment No.

Morphology and Syntax (ENG509)

Student Name Hafsa Jaan

Student Id mc200400620

Instructor Name Prof. Shakeel Amjad

Q1. Listen to the topic video no. 10 carefully and distinguish between the terms
‘inflection’and ‘derivation’ giving their exact definitions. Also explain the concept of zero
derivationwith 5 examples

Ans

Inflection:

Inflection includes the arrangement of syntactic structures – past, present, future; solitary, plural;
manly, female, fix, etc – of a solitary lexeme. The utilization of these syntactic structures is for
the most part directed by sentence structure.

Derivation:

Derivation includes the production of one lexeme from another, Compounding is an exceptional
sort of induction, since it includes the production of one lexeme from at least two different
lexemes.

Zero derivation

Zero derivation is a kind of word formation involving the creation of a word (of a new
wordclass) from an existing word (of a different word class) without any change in form, which
is to say, derivation using only zero. Zero-derivation changes the lexical category of a word
without changing its phonological shape. Examples of novel verbs formed by 2- to 5-year-olds
by zero-derivation

a. SC (2;4, as his mother prepared to brush his hair): Don’t hair me.

b. JA (2;6, seated in a rocking chair): Rocker me, mommy.

c. SC (2;7, hitting baby sister with toy broom): I broomed her.

d. SC (2;9, playing with toy lawnmower): I’m lawning.

Q2. Listen to the topic video no. 37 carefully. After having a good understanding about the
concepts of ‘Compounds’ and ‘Phrases’, differentiate between the two giving their exact
definitions. Moreover, write 5 examples of nouns derived from nouns.
 Compounds Phrases
A compound is a substance framed when at A phrase is a little gathering of words standing
least two synthetic components are artificially all together unit, commonly shaping a segment
fortified together. In combinations, the of a provision.
substances present are not artificially fortified
together. The kind of bonds holding
components together in a compound can
change: two normal sorts are covalent bonds
and ionic bonds

write 5 examples of nouns derived from nouns.

 Droplet
 booklet,
 cigarette,
 doggie,
 waitress,
 princess,
 heroine,
 Londoner,
 New Yorker,
 Texan,
 Glaswegian