MORPHOLOGY
 

General

  • Derivational morphemes (dis-, re-, -ify, -ize) and inflectional (sings, songs, broken)
  • Stacking morphemes: un / gentle / man / li / ness, un / system / atic / al / ly
  • Productivity: -th.[n*], ity.[n*], -en.[v*]

Blends: Match up the following:

1 Reintarnation       a When a middle-aged man sucks in his stomach while being introduced to an attractive woman
2 Karmageddon       b The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly
3 Dopeler effect       c A magazine for executioners
4 Intaxication       d The little smudge I came home with on my collar that makes my wife act like it's the end of the world
5 Hipatitis       e Pranks conducted by young men studying for the priesthood
6 Tumfoolery       f A document given to each graduating pope
7 Polarvoid       g Coming back to life as a hillbilly
8 Sarchasm       h Terminal coolness
9 Guillozine       i It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes
and it's like a serious bummer
10 Pontificate       j A fight among vampires
11 Semantics       k The state of having no baby pictures, a condition that usually befalls the second-born child
12 Spatula       l Euphoria at receiving a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with
13 Apocalypstic       m The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the reader who doesn't get it

Relatedness

  1. nurse/doctor, pillar/column, tree/leaf
  2. leave/leaf, burn/urn, though/through, red/bread
  3. teach/taught, speak/speaker, goat/goats, ox/oxen
  • Serenity/serene
  • water/watering
  • proof/prove
  • read/reread
  • receive/deceive
  • transmit/remit
  • transmit/transmission
  • redeem/redemption
  • fall/fell
  • electric/electricity
  • ten/tithe
  • brother/brethren
  • child/children
  • teach/teacher
  • friend/friendly
  • walk/walked
  • go/went
  • good/best
  • am/is

CORPUS-BASED DATA

Nouns

  • Number (plurals)
    • Irregular (-*s.[nn2])
    • Latin/Greek
    • Zero
  • Gender
    • Forms for women (-woman, female [nn*])
    • "he or she"
  • Derivational
    • Prefixes: auto-, bi-, bio-, co-, counter-, dis-, ex-, fore-, hyper-, in-, inter-, kilo-, mal-, mega-, mini-, mis-, mono-, neo-, non-, out-, poly-, re-, semi-, sub-, super-, tele-, tri-, ultra-, under-, vice-
    • Suffixes: -age, -al, -(i)an, -a/ence, -a/ent, -cy, -dom, -ee, -e/or, -(e)ry, -ese, -ess, -ette, -ful, -hood, -ician, -ie/y, -ing, -ism, -ist, -ite, -ity, -let, -ment, -ness, -ship, -tion, -ure
  • Compounding
    • N + N: [nn*] [nn*] (bar code)
    • N+V-er: *-*er.[nn1] (dishwasher)
    • N+V-ing: e.g. ???????????ing.[nn1] (housekeeping)
    • V-ing N: *ing [nn1] (filing cabinet)

Adjectives

  • Participles: -ing, -ed
  • Derivational: -al, -ent, -ive, -ous, -ate, -ful, -less

  • Compounds: *-*.[aj*]

  • -ic / ical

  • Comparatives: find six adjectives: 2 only [more + ADJ], 2 only [-er], 2 with both

Verbs

  • Regular: person, number, tense (for 4-5 verbs) (VVB 'speak', VVZ 'speaks', VVG 'speaking', VVD 'spoke', VVN 'spoken')

  • VVD/VVN confusion ("I had saw / went"): (Google/BNC): dove/dived, proven/proved, sewn/sewed, drank/drunk/drunken,(drinken??), striven/strived, thriven/thrived, shone/shined, hoven/heaved, snuck/sneaked, swollen/swelled

  • Derivational
    • Prefixes: dis-, mis-, out-, over-, re-, un-
    • Suffixes: -ate, -ify, -ize, -en