LIN204H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Morphological Derivation, Morpheme, Bound And Unbound Morphemes

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Answers to exercises: chapter 2: identifying morphemes. We won"t discuss the words that are clearly lexical and mono-morphemic, that is to say which have lexical meaning and consist of one morpheme only and cannot be divided further. The following words do require some comment in that they consist of more than one morpheme or at least could be argued to do so: Biopic is an interesting one, it looks like a compound consisting of two abbreviated parts, bio(graphical) pic(ture), but since neither bio nor pic is a morpheme of english independently, you could argue that it consists of two. Cran-morphemes" rather than two free morphemes, or maybe even that it should be treated as a mono-morphemic word. You may well have developed your own arguments for one of these conclusions. It"s clearly consists of two morphemes, it and "s, with it being free. The issue here is whether you think of "s as an inflection.

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