A Linguistics Workbook, 4th Edition

Name

Section

7.5 Word Building 2: -l i ke A flixation (English)

Examine the data in lists I and II and answer questions A-F. It will be helpful to

review the material in Linguistics on parts of speech (pp. 19-23).

List 1 List I1

I. war

2. wife


3. king


4. prince


5. human


6. snake


7. child
   8. lady


8. tree


9. death


10. thumb


11. book
    1 3. sportsman


12. dungeon


13. fish

warlike

wifelike

kinglike

princelike

humanlike

snakelike

childlike

ladylike

treelike

deathlike

thumblike

booklike

sportsmanlike

dungeonlike

fishlike

Questions

A. The morpheme like combines with a word of what category (part of speech)?

That is, what category is X in X-like?

B. The words in list I1 all belong to what category?