click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Morphology Examples
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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-ó) |
| 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 |