1. Break the words down into the smallest possible meaningful units.
wizard, strengthen, speaker, often, rightful
When you have finished, think about whether or not it was easy to find the smallest possible meaningful units. What reasons can you give for your answer?
When you have finished, check your answers in a dictionary.
2. Do the morphemic analysis of the words on the lines of the traditional and distributional classifications.
MODEL: Do the morphemic analysis of the word "inseparable".
On the lines of the traditional classification the word "inseparable" is treated as a three-morpheme word consisting of the root "-separ-", the prefix "in-" and the lexical suffix "-able".
On the lines of the distributional analysis the root "-separ-" is a bound, overt, continuous, additive morpheme: the prefix "in-" is bound, overt, continuous, additive; the suffix "-able"" is bound, overt, continuous, additive.
undoubtedly, children's (books), dismissed, underesimated, surroundings, presume, kingdom, brotherhood, plentiful, imperishable, unprecedented, oxen, embodiment, outlandish, really, proficient - deficient efficient, gooseberry, unreproved. incomparable, quiet, perceptions, bell, glassy, uncommunicative, inexplicable, inconceivable, preamplifier, southernism, semidarkness, adventuresses, ineptitude, insufficiency, to prejudge.
3. Define the type of the morphemic distribution according to which the given words are grouped.
MODEL: insensible - incapable
The morphs "'-ible" and "-able" are in complementary distribution, as they have the same meaning but are different in their form which is explained by their different environments.
impeccable, indelicate, illiterate, irrelevant;
undisputable, indisputable:
published, rimmed;
seams, seamless, seamy.
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