_Morphology

Morphemic Structure of Words

1. Analyze the following words into their constituent morphemes. Give the meaning or functional characterization for each morpheme.

Example: preordained

 pre- (= before); ordain  -ed (=past participle)

• devolution
• bedevil
• reintroduction
• irresistible
• deafened
• talked

2. Give the morphemic structure of the following words, indicating whether the affixes are inflectional (I) or derivational (D).

Example: reattainable

''re = D; -attain; -able = D

• confidential
• hopeless
• predetermined
• transmit
• detect
• debug
• disestablished
• its