A question about Morphology ☹️ How many morphemes are included in the word ( unimaginatively )?

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A question about Morphology ☹️ How many morphemes are included in the word ( unimaginatively )?

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Problem is that, this "-ive" was not added to 'imagination', an English word.
And it is not that "-ative" or "-ate-" and "-ive" was added to "Imagine", an English word.

This -(at)ive comes from Latin "imaginativus" and French "imaginatif".

And Latin word has MANY Latin morphmes. I can count up to 7.

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I'm not an expert by any means, but I'd say four: un +imagin(e) + ative + ly

I'd say the root morpheme is the verb 'imagine'. Some people might try to split it down further (" image + ine = imagine", like " exam + ine = examine"), but I'm not sure that works.

The three bound morphemes which are attached to it are:

'un' to make it negative.

'ative' to make the verb into an adjective

'ly' to make the adjective into an adverb

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Thank u Su.ki. [emoji][emoji] i really appreciate ur help .

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Its okay K P im really happy with ur help .

Thanks a lot for all the effort [emoji][emoji]♥️ that was really helpful !

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Muzna, sorry for flooding here. I am talkative. I myself would say

"3 or 4 or even 5"

un-, -ly and imaginative (because "'imaginative" came to English from French/Latin "imaginatif/imaginativus" as a whole)
or
un-, -ly, and imagin(-at-)(-ive). (because -at-, -ive, -ative have a life of their own in English).

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