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
1. Draw trees for the following words

N V V Adj.

V Aff. (D) Aff. (D) V Aff.(D) V N Aff.(D)

sing -er mis- calculate dis- obey beaut(i) -ful

N. Adj. V V

V Aff.(I) Aff.(D) V
N Aff.(I) Adj. Aff.(I)
work -ed re- construct
pencil -s small -est
1. Draw trees for the following words

Adv. V Adv. Adj.

Adj. Aff. (D) Aff. (D) V Adj. Aff. (D) N Aff.(D)

just -ly un- do short -ly bas(e) -ic

N Adj.

N Adj.

V Aff.(D) Aff.(I) Aff.(D) V Aff.(D)

prefer -ence -s un- respon(s) -ive
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’
 Key
a) Inflectional affixation.
b) Inflectional affixation.
c) Derivational affixation.
d) Inflectional affixation.
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
 Key
a) Partial suppletion
b) Inflectional affixation
c) Umlaut
d) Ablaut
e) Total suppletion
f) Inflectional affixation
g) Umlaut
 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
4. Draw a tree for the following compounds

N N N Adj.

N N P N Adj. N N Adj.
coffee table in - crowd green peace brain dead

Adj. N N N

V N V N
N Adj. Adj. N
Kill joy walk man
lead - free blue print
4. Draw a tree for the following compounds

V V

V V P V
freeze dry under estimate
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.
 INFLECTIONAL
AFFIXES
Key DERIVATIONAL
AFFIXES
1. The ladies/’ bags disappeared.
2. These sweaters are inexpensive.
3. I’ve heard him.
4. The strongest athlete won.
5. The alphabetiz/ation 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
 Key
• impact (N) CONVERSION
• fab CLIPPING
• I’m happy CLITICIZATION
• walkman COMPOUND
• net CLIPPING
• chunnel BLENDING
• depersonalize DERIVATIONAL AFFIXATION
• edit BACKFORMATION
• unreal DERIVATIONAL AFFIXATION
• netiquette BLENDING
 Key
• resemblance (N) DERIVATIONAL AFFIXATION
• painted (V) INFLECTIONAL AFFIXATION
• infomercial BLENDING
• malfunction (V) DERIVATIONAL AFFIXATION
• math CLIPPING
• make-believe COMPOUNDING
• progress (V) CONVERSION
• aids ACRONYMY
• kitchen knife COMPOUNDING
• enjoyment DERIVATIONAL AFFIXATION
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.
Adapted from: Berrone,M.L. (2008) A student’s linguistics workbook. Córdoba: Comunicarte
(1)(4) N (2) N

V N

V Aff.(D)

sing er

train er

V P Aff.(I)

work out s

(3) N (5) N

V Aff.(D) N N

swim(m)ing Yoga lates

(Clipping from “Pilates”)

6) N Adj. (7) Adj.

Adj. N N Adj.

Low - carb diet-conscious

(Clippling from “carbohydrate)

(8) N

N Aff.(I)

Veggies

(Clipping from “vegetable”)

(NOTE: Double lines indicate the head of the compound.)