英语词汇学第三单元课后练习

Questions and Tasks

1.  Write the terms in the blanks according to the definitions.

a.  a minimal meaningful unit of a language (        )

b.  one of the variants that realize a morpheme (        )

c.  a morpheme that occurs with at least one other morpheme (        )

d.  a morpheme that can stand alone (        )

e.  a morpheme attached to a base, stem or root (        )

f.  an affix that indicates grammatical relationships (         )

g.  an affix that forms new words with a base, stem or root (        ) 

h.  what remains of a word after the removal of all affixes (        )

i. that part of a word that can take inflectional affixes (        ) 

j. a form to which affixes of any kind can be added (        )

 

2.  What is the difference between grammatical and lexical morphemes, and inflectional and  derivational morphemes? Give examples to illustrate their relationships.

3.  Analyze the words in terms of root, stem and base. 

    individualistic undesirables

4.  Organize the following terms in a tree diagram to show their logical relationships.

     affix                               morpheme

     derivational affix           free root

     bound root                      inflectional affix

     prefix                             free morpheme

     bound morpheme           suffix