EXERCISES DOC

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EXERCISES I.Chaper 1: AN INTODUCTION TO MORPHOLOGY 1. Câu 1: - Language as a purely human and non-instinctive method of communicating ideas. - Means of communication only human. * There are 4 constituent part of language + Phonetic – deals with sound systems + Morphological – deals with word-structure + Syntatic – with the sentence stucture +Semantic – with meaning II. Chaper 2: MORPHEMES 1. Câu 1: a. Morphemes are the smallest meaningful units which may contitude words or part of words. Ex: books, walked , unhappy… b. A morph is a physical form representing some morpheme in a language. Ex: want /want/ , you / ju:/…. c. Allomorphs are the various phonemic shapes that represent the same morpheme. Ex: {-s} /s/, /z/, /Iz/ or {-ed} /t/, /d/, /Id/ d. The term portamanteau morph is used to perfer tocases where a single morph simultaneously represent a bundle of several different grammatical elements. Ex: walks… e. There exist a few morphemes whose allomorphs show no phonetic similarity. That is the suppletion. Suppletion is a type of irregularity in which where is a complete change in the shape of a word in its various inflected forms. Ex: good – better – best bad – worse – worst f. There may be a surplus word-building lement which does not realise any morpheme. Such an element is usually called an empty morph. Ex: person /´pɜ:sn/ person-al /´pɜ:sənl/ e. The past tense of regular verbs in English is represent by "ed", whereas in many case is no change in the form of the verb. This case is called zero allomorph. Ex: Last week, I cut the grass in the garden. Yesterday, they went go to shopping. 2. Câu 2: Tell about different between morphemes, words, syllables:...