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Be sure you know both the form and meaning of the morphemes in Morpheme Set 3 at this Web site.

Be sure to review the morphemes in earlier sets.

In one major section of the exam, you will be given literal meanings or definitions which are transparently derived from literal meanings. From a list of words, you will need to select the word which best fits each meaning. The words contain morphemes which you have studied.

The meanings may NOT necessarily correspond literally to the dictionary definition. Use your knowledge of the morphemes, especially the derivational suffixes, and the meaning to choose the word which best fits each meaning.

There are two words which you will need to analyze. Each word is given in a sentence. Derivational suffixes must have only ONE gloss to be correct. Choose the correct one based on the context of the sentence

As usual, there are two words which you will need to analyze. Each word is given in a sentence. This is an open-ended (not multiple choice) question.

In the remainder of the exam, you will be asked to apply the principles you have studied in this unit. You may be given an example and asked to determine what it is an example of.

In some questions, you will be asked to provide the original form of a morpheme altered by an allomorphy rule. This is an open-ended (not multiple choice) question.

All questions are multiple choice, except for the two types of open-ended questions mentioned above.

When you study, be sure to study the examples given in the text and in WebLectures. You will be given similar, but different examples on the exam. Exam questions are often similar to homework problems.

Review the Latin and Greek sounds on page 84. You will need to identify a few morphemes as borrowed from Latin or Greek.

Be sure you understand the technical terminology we have discussed in this unit. You may want to review the definitions of the following terms and think of an example of each.

polysemy	semantic shift	narrowing
homonymy	etymological	widening
metaphor	creative variation	amelioration
metonymy	synecdoche	degeneration

Below is a list of the allomorphy rules we studied in this unit. Remember that you will be given a list rules by their names, not by their numbers. (You may ignore the numbers). You should be able to recognize a morpheme changed by a rule, give the original form of the morpheme, and select the name of the rule which changed it. Here is a list of rule names:

Nasal Assimilation	u Insertion	d to s
Voice Assimilation	Rhotacism	t to s and ss
Total Assimilation	Extra s Deletion	v to u
Vowel Deletion (before vowel)	C Deletion	el and ol to ul
Vowel Deletion (before r)	t Insertion	ex- to e-
Vowel Insertion	Greek mat Formation

You may want to try out the sample exam. It contains some of the kinds of questions you'll see on the third exam. No data will actually be sent; you will find the answers to the question in Exercises A and B in this unit.

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