1.

Draw trees for the following words

1. Singer 12. Shortly
2. Miscalculate 13. Basic
3. Pencils 14. Unresponsive
4. Smallest
5. Disobey
6. Beautiful
7. Worked
8. Reconstruct
9. Justly
10. Undo
11. Preferences
2. Which morphological process were these sets
of words affected by?

a) Bright, brighter, brightest

b) Publish, publishing, publishes, published
c) Function, functional, malfunction, functionally
d) Poet, poets, poet’s, poets’
3. What type of inflectional process affected the second
morpheme of each pair?

a) Catch / caught
b) Visit / visited
c) Man / men
d) Dive / dove
e) Go / went
f) Try /tried
g) Foot / feet
 4. Draw a tree for the following compounds

1. Coffee table
2. In-crowd
3. Lead-free
4. Blueprint
5. Greenpeace
6. Brain dead
7. Killjoy
8. Walkman
9. Freeze dry
10. Underestimate
5. Detect inflectional and derivational affixes

1. The ladies’ bags disappeared.

2. These sweaters are inexpensive.
3. I’ve heard him.
4. The strongest athlete won.
5. The alphabetization went well.
6. John needs the older files.
6. Indicate the morphological process illustrated in column 2

Column 1 Column 2
impact (V) impact (N)
fabulous fab
I am happy I’m happy
walk ; man walkman
network net
channel; tunnel chunnel
person depersonalize
editor edit
real unreal
etiquette, network netiquette
 Column 1 Column 2

resemble resemblance
paint painted
information; commercial infomercial
function malfunction
mathematics math
make; believe make-believe
progress (N) progress (V)
Acquired immune deficiency aids
syndrome

kitchen; knife kitchen knife

enjoy enjoyment
 7.Using tree diagrams, show the morphological structure
of each of the underlined words below. Indicate the kind
of process/s that has/have affected each word.

In a few months, the five-foot-nine (1)singer

lost 20 pounds. Daily water (2)workouts (like
(3)swimming and aqua-aerobics) with a
(4)trainer, (5) yogalates and a (6)low-carb,
low-sugar diet of several small meals a day
did the trick. “I’m not (7)diet-conscious”, says
the star. Her staples? (8)Veggies and fish.
Adapter from: Berrone,M.L. (2008) A student’s linguistics workbook. Córdoba: Comunicarte.