Linguistics for Everyone

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Linguistics for Everyone

• Chapter 5 p.177
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• 4. Free and Bound Morphemes
• Divide the following words into morphemes.
• Which morphemes are affixes? Which morphemes are
  free morphemes, and which are bound?
• legalize
• legal (free morpheme) lize (bound,
  affix-suffix)
• prescription
• pre (bound, affix-prefix) script (free
  morpheme) ion (bound, affix-suffix)
• distaste
• dis (bound, affix-prefix) taste (free morpheme)

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• sportsmanship
• sports (free morpheme) man (free morpheme)
  ship (bound, affix-suffix)
• serenity
• seren (free morpheme) ity (bound, affix-suffix)
• ridden
• rid (free morpheme) den (bound, affix-suffix)
• misinformation
• mis (bound, affix-prefix) inform (free
  morpheme) ation (bound, affix-suffix)