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Quiz 1
Course: Syntax and Morphology
Class: Pre-MA Semester: 21.2A Time allowed: 30 minutes

I. Identify the morphemes for each of the following words, in the order that they appear in the
word. (1 mark / 0.2 each).
1. Inputs = ___________ + ___________ + ___________
2. Within = ___________ + ___________
3. Underemployed = ___________ + ___________ + ___________
4. Unanswerable = ___________ + ___________ + ___________
5. Waterproof = ___________ + ___________
II. Draw a tree to show how each word is formed and at each node indicate the syntactic
category (n/ v/ adj/ adv/ etc.) (2 marks / 0.5 each).
Uncontrollably (4 morphemes), Recolonizations (5 morphemes),
Ungrateful (3 morphemes), Rewashable (3 morphemes)
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III. For each word below, indicate whether the word is morphologically simple (S), includes an
inflectional affix (I), or includes a derivational affix (D) (2 marks / 0.2 each).
1. goods: __ 2. prettier: ___ 3. silver: ___ 4. measles: ___ 5. disorder: ___
6. runner: ___7. declassify: __ 8. thought: ___ 9. predictable: ___ 10. openness: ___
IV. Name the word-formation process exemplified by the following word construction. Write
your answers on the answer sheet. They can be compounding, acronyms, back formations,
abbreviations, clipping, eponyms, blending, coinage, borrowing, conversion, or affixation.
(1 mark / 0.2 each).
Example: 0. television -> televise
Answer: 0. Back-formation
1. donation (n) -> donate (v) _____________________________
2. brassiere -> bra _____________________________
3. Spanish + English -> Spanglish _____________________________
4. Process (n) -> process (v) _____________________________
5. Modern (adj) -> modernism (n)_____________________________

V. Word-structure tree (1 mark / 0.5 each).

The word unpackable has two meanings: (a) "not capable of being ___” and (b) "capable of
being un____". Draw a word-structure tree for unpackable corresponding to the
interpretation of (a) and (b) and indicate the meaning below each tree diagram.
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VI. Identify the following compounds (1 mark / 0.2 each):

Example: (bath towel = noun + noun = noun)
a. Fingerprint ___________________________________________
b. Headstrong ___________________________________________
c. Pickpocket ___________________________________________
d. Overtake ___________________________________________

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VII. (1) Identify the ROOT in the words following by underlining it and (2) state which
syntactic category it belongs to (1 mark / 0.2 each):
Example: friendly; Noun
a. lamps ___________________________________________
b. kindness ___________________________________________
c. players ___________________________________________
d. editors ___________________________________________
e. successful ___________________________________________
VIII. For each of the following bound morphemes, determine whether it is derivational or
inflectional and give two words in which it appears (1 mark / 0.2 each):
Example: –able: derivational; eatable; readable
a. –ity ___________________________________________
b. –s ___________________________________________
c. un– ___________________________________________
d. –al ___________________________________________
e. –ed ___________________________________________

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