LIN204H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Lake Simcoe, Affix, Semantic Change
CHAPTER 3 REVIEW (part 2)
-In the sentence "Jaspreet hopes the Toronto Blue Jays will win the World Series this
year", the BEST interpretation for the use of the present tense on the verb "hope" is a
continuous (ongoing) activity or state. The "hoping" began before this sentence was
uttered, and it continues into the present.
-Narrowing is a type of semantic change. Example: the word "Hund" in Old English used
to mean 'dog'. In modern English, the same word (now pronounced "hound") is used to
refer to a particular dog breed (a hunting dog).
-The DERIVATIONAL morphemes in the word “unconditionally” are {un-}, {-al}, and {-
ly}. Condition" is a single morpheme (a noun); don't be misled by the "-ion" ending! If "-
ion" were the derivational suffix {-ion}, then we would expect it to attach to a verbal
base, but "condit" is not a verbal base (bound or free) in the minds of English speakers.
-The suffix {-ish} in the words "boyish" and "pinkish" indicates that these words are
adjectives.
-The function of the suffix {-ion} in the word "captivation" creates nouns from verbs. Try
using the word "captivation" in a sentence in order to determine its category. Then try
creating a sentence with the base that the suffix "-ion" attaches to.
-The verb “talk” in “they have talked too much today” is composed of a VERB and the
PAST PARTICIPLE morpheme {-en}.
-If an affix (suffix or prefix) is attached to a base, and the category of the word does NOT
change (i.e., the new word has the same category as the category of the base), you still
can’t conclude that the affix is an inflectional affix because while it is true that
inflectional affixes do not cause a change in category, some derivational affixes (e.g.,
{un-} in "untie") also do not cause a change in the category of the word either.
-In the sentence "We grow tomatoes in the summer”, the word "grow" should be analyzed
as {grow} verb; base, free; {-s3} verbal inflection; zero allomorph; present tense; as in
"We walk".
-The number of INFLECTIONAL and DERIVATIONAL morphemes in the word
“creamiest” ONE inflectional morpheme and ONE derivational morpheme.
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Document Summary
In the sentence "jaspreet hopes the toronto blue jays will win the world series this year", the best interpretation for the use of the present tense on the verb "hope" is a continuous (ongoing) activity or state. The "hoping" began before this sentence was uttered, and it continues into the present. Narrowing is a type of semantic change. Example: the word "hund" in old english used to mean "dog". In modern english, the same word (now pronounced "hound") is used to refer to a particular dog breed (a hunting dog). The derivational morphemes in the word unconditionally are {un-}, {-al}, and {- ly}. Condition" is a single morpheme (a noun); don"t be misled by the "-ion" ending! If "- ion" were the derivational suffix {-ion}, then we would expect it to attach to a verbal base, but "condit" is not a verbal base (bound or free) in the minds of english speakers.
