Do the morphemic analysis of the words on the lines of the traditional and distributional classifications.

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Think of the grounds for the following phenomena to be grouped.

Give paradigms of: to bring, to lie, long, speaker.

a) trousers, pencils, linguistics, airs, Praguians;

b) spoke, wanted, was, cut, built;

c) introduce, introduced, is introducing, will introduce, has introduced;

d) will come, was written, has done, is playing, is being asked, should have been done;

e) their, the students', notebooks of the students;

f) majority, windows, many a deer, polysemantic, cattle.

Example: Do the morphemic analysis of the word “inseparable”.

• On the lines of the traditional classification the word “inseparable” is treated as a three-morpheme word consisting of the root “-separ-”, the prefix “in-” and the lexical suffix “-able”.
• On the lines of the distributional analysis the root “-separ-” is a bound, overt, continuous, additive morpheme; the prefix “in-” is bound, overt, continuous, additive; the suffix “-able” is bound, overt, continuous, additive.

a) unmistakably, children's (books), disfigured, surroundings, presume, kingdom, brotherhood, plentiful, imperishable, unprecedented, oxen;

b) hammer, students' (papers), sing - sang - singing - singer, really, proficient - deficient - efficient, gooseberry, incomparable;

c) quiet, perceptions, bell, unbelievably, glassy, uncommunicative, inexplicable, infamy, strenuousness;

d) inconceivable, adventuresses, susceptibility, ineptitude, unfathomable, insufficiency, to prejudge, cranberry.

10. Define the type of the morphemic distribution according to which the giv­en words are grouped.

Example: insensible – incapable.

The morphs “-ible” and “-able” are in complementary distribution, as they have the same meaning but are different in their form which is explained by their different environments.

a) impeccable, indelicate, illiterate, irrelevant;

b) undisputable, indisputable;

c) published, rimmed;

d) seams, seamless, seamy.