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Morphology Examples
Question | Answer |
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Examples of simple words | book, mother, test, mint, the, water |
Examples of complex words | singing, unkind, cloudy, archival |
Faithfulness Analysis | faith- -ful- -ness faith (free) hopeful goodness unfaith fruitful rudeness interfaith skillful playfulness |
Faithfulness Details of Analysis | [[faith-]N [-ful-]]A [-ness]]N |
Examples of prefixes | pre-view, un-happy, a-moral |
Examples of suffixes | meditat-ion, photograph-ic, nation-al |
Free and bounds of articulators | articulat-or-s free-bound-bound |
Analyze the root of Impossible | Af-Rt-Af B-B-B |
Analyze the root of Unquenchable | Af-Rt-Af B-F-B |
Analyze the root of Reallocated | Af-Rt-Af B-F-B |
Analyze the root of International | Af-Rt-Af B-F-B |
Analyze the root of Disenfranchised | Af-Af-Rt-Af B-B-F-B |
Examples of isolating languages | Chinese |
Examples of English isolating sentences | -She will go to the store -They all want salad for dinner -Lee must pick up their shirt from the shop by dusk |
Example of inflectional language | spanish (habl-รณ) |
Example of polysynthetic language | Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Russia, Nambikuaran, Brazil |
Example of 2-class systems | masculine/feminine or animate/inanimate |
Example of 3-class systems | masculine/feminine/neuter |
Example of 4-class systems | masculine/feminine/other animate/misc |
Example of 5-class system | humans, animals and other humans, plants and inanimates, long things, and body parts |
Example of nominative case | The thief stole the painting (with agreement between article and noun) |
Example of accusative case | The thief stole the famous painting (between article, adjective, noun) |
Example of genitive case | The child's parents went on vacation.e |
Example of ablative case | The student is in the city. |
Examples of two basic tenses | -past (before now) vs. nonpast (not before now) -future (after now) vs. non-future (not after now = present or past) |
Example of three basic tenses | past, present, future |
Example of remoteness | -Recent past (earlier today) -Remote past (long ago) |
Example of perfect aspect | -Jane has written a novel -Jane had written two full-length novels by the time she turned 21 |
Example of regular aspect | -Steve has walked his dog seven times daily for nine years. |
Example of progressive aspect | -Jake is writing a graphic novel. -Jake was writing to the President when I entered his office |
Example of Present Perfect Progressive aspect | -Laurie has been writing a textbook since quarantine began. |
Example of Past Perfect Progressive aspect | -Laurie had been writing regularly until melancholy struck. |
Example of indicative mood | That is my cat. |
Example of interrogative mood | Is that your pet? |
Example of imperative mood | Feed the dog! |
Example of optative mood | Would that I were wealthy. |
Example of conditional mood | If I were a rich man. |
Example of doubt mood | I doubt that it be so. |
Example of evidentiality affixes | Hearsay, doubt, deductive, general truth |