Linguistics 105 * Words and Sounds
Examples and Exercises
Morphological Analysis


Analyze the following English words into their constituent morphemes and state the meanings of each morpheme in general terms. Comparing the term with other words sharing the same affix or stem might be useful.

  1. unexcitable
  2. nominalization
  3. redesigning
  4. uselessness
  5. craziness
  6. unfailingly
  7. affordability
  8. instrumentality
  9. reconciliation
  10. appendicitis
  11. houseboat
  12. doghouse
  13. anglophile (francophile, slavophile, grecophile)
  14. telephone (television, telescope)
  15. psychopathological
  16. uncritical
  17. recordings
  18. facilitator's
  19. restitution
  20. condescension
  21. liberated
  22. psychopathological
  23. antidisestablishmentarianism