Tutorial 7
LING 220
Fall 2025
Question 1: Word Trees
Draw trees for the following words.
1. “trustful”
2. “impartial”
3. “blue-collar”
4. “insufferably”
Question 2: Ambiguous Words
Draw two tree structures for the word “unlockable” and give the
meaning for each tree.
• Do you think “un-” is one morpheme or are there two
morphemes “un1-” and “un2-” that sound identical?
Question 3: Inflections
Find all inflections in the following sentence.
“Steven’s biggest brains were performing better lately”
Question 4: Data Set
Question 5: Data Set
• What type of morpheme converts bone → skeleton, mountain → mountain range, etc?
• Is it derivational or inflectional? How do you know?
• What changes happen inside the root?