4. Group the words according to a particular type of morphemic distribution.
MODEL: worked - bells - tells - fells - telling - spells - spelled spelt - felled - bell.
spells - spelled: the allomorphs "-s" and "-ed" are in contrastive distribution (= fells - felled);
bell - bells: the allomorph "-s" and the zero allomorph are in contrastive distribution;
spelt - spelled: the allomorphs "-t" and "-ed" are in non-contrastive distribution;
worked-spelled: the allomorphs "-ed" [t] and "-ed" [d] are in complementary distribution, etc.
burning - burns - burned - burnt;
dig - digs - digging - digged - dug - digger;
light - lit - lighted - lighting - lighter;
worked - working - worker - workable - workoholic.
5. Group the words according to a particular type of morphemic distribution:
1. mice, leapt, appendices, kittens, cats, witches, leaping, children, leaped, leaps, formulae, stimuli, matrices, sanatoria;
geese, dogs, chickens, deer, mats, bade, bid, phenomena, formulae, formulas, genii, geniuses, scissors;
genera, brethren, brothers, trout, gestures, blessed, blest, tins, pots, matches, antennae, antennas;
anthems, classes, lice, handkerchiefs, handkerchieves, bereft, bereaved, grouse, cleaved, cleft, clove.
6. The word antidisestablishmentarianism is one of the longest words in English. Define its morphems and describe their meanings. Check your suppositions in a dictionary.
7. Divide the words into groups according to the meaning the morpheme ‘-(e)s’ renders.
takes, pants, statistics, Brussels, linguistics, books, speaks, Alps, lots, vitals, fists, odds, corps, tidings, news, proceeds, human’s, ashes, stays, spectacles, civics, stops, official’s.
REFERENCES
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5. Иванова И.П., Бурлакова В.В., Почепцов Г.Г. Теоретическая грамматика современного английского языка. − М.: Высшая школа, 1981. – C. 4−9.
6. Гуревич, В.В. Теоретическая грамматика английского языка. Сравнительная типология английского и русского языков: Учебное пособие. – М.: Флинта: Наука, 2003. – С. 88−96, 99−103.
REPORT
The procedures for revealing morphemes suggested by Z. Harris and Ch. Hockett.
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