Nadelyn Pichardo Perkins 3 5 13 LING 100 800 Floccinaucinihilipilification flaks nowsIn hIl phIl f khej n Morphemes Reducing something to little or nothing underestimation tion suffix Nounness at e suffix V Adj N ify suffix V make something this way Flocci few Au or Nihil nothing Analyzing morphemes Examples Cats 1 syllable two morphemes Silver 2 syllables one morpheme Watched Remember Syllable is not the same as morpheme morpheme is not same as syllable syllable is pronounced Vowel and whatever we tolerate phonotactically around a pronounced Vowel 1 Look at similar forms don t get stuck 2 Check meanings different meanings require analysis as different morphemes 3 Check use function don t get stuck derivational morphemes change part of speech inflectional morphemes other ed watched V watching will watch We watched television A watched pot never boils Watch N noun V verb Two watch in English the watch that tells the time and to watch something Forms of morphemes allomorphs abil able Ability ity noun able Electricity hecticity itty bitty EX City Cat itty bitty kitty cuteness morpheme y hierarchies orders of adding affixes undoable do root able suffix adj ability un prefix negation Estimate graduate inundate enunciate extrapolate elevate Introduce examples if you know what you re doing then introduce only relevant examples if you don t know then need more examples to figure out which ones are relevant the following is based on problem 46 of chapter 4 page 193 194 in the Linguistics Book 11th edition Japanese Open ake Eat tabe Passive rare Causative sase Nonpast ru Past ta Negative nai Ake Akesaseru Akesaserareru Uke Ukesaserareta Ukesaseru Ukerunai Ukenairu ukenai Akesaserareta root causative passive past Root causative nonpast akesaseru Root causative negative akesasenai