Key to the exercises in Chapter 4

1. Answer questions about the listed words.(返回)

(1) a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 2 e) 2 f) 4 g) 4 h) 3 i) 7 j) 9

(2) b) troublesome c) disgraceful e) stepsister f) psycholinguistics
g) multinationality h) understatement i) antidisestablishmentarianism
a) pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

(3) suppletive

2. Find out the morphological process.(返回)

　(1) Column I: inflection
　　　Column II: derivation
　　　Column III: compounding

　(2) In a) and b). the words are formed by suffixation; in c) and d), by prefixation

3. Tell the process of word formation. (返回)

a) coinage b) blending c) clipping d) acronyming
e) eponyming f) back formation g) conversion

5. Attach the suffix -er to some place names.(返回)

(1) a b c f g i j

(2) an inhabitant of a place

(3) The –er in teacher and runner means one that performs an action