Practice Exercises in Morphology III Linguistics 201 I. Morphological ...
Practice Exercises in Morphology III Linguistics 201 I. Morphological ...
Practice Exercises in Morphology III Linguistics 201 I. Morphological ...
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I. <strong>Morphological</strong> Analysis<strong>Practice</strong> <strong>Exercises</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Morphology</strong> <strong>III</strong>L<strong>in</strong>guistics <strong>201</strong>From the follow<strong>in</strong>g data sets, identify the str<strong>in</strong>gs of sounds which correspond to themorphemes <strong>in</strong> each language.SwahiliSwahili is a Bantu language which is spoken primarily <strong>in</strong> East Africa. There areapproximately 800,000 native speakers of Swahili, and some 30,000,000 people (!)worldwide speak Swahili as a second language.anapenda 'he likes' alimona 'he saw him'atapenda 'he will like' alimsaidia 'he helped him'alipenda 'he liked' alimpiga 'he hit him'amependa 'he has liked' alimchukua 'he carried him'al<strong>in</strong>ipenda 'he liked me' alimua 'he killed him'alikupenda 'he liked you' ananitazama 'he looks at me'alimpenda 'he liked him' atakusikia 'he will hear you'alitupenda 'he liked us' alitupanya 'he cured us'aliwapenda 'he liked them' n<strong>in</strong>akupenda 'I like you'nitampenda 'I will like him' nitawapenda 'I will like them'Pronouns Tenses Verbshe: [present]: see:me: [future]: help:you: [past]: hit:him: [past part.]: carry:us:kill:them:look:I: hear:cure:like:Translate the follow<strong>in</strong>g English sentences <strong>in</strong>to Swahili:i. He has hit me.ii. He helps us.iii. I will look at you.
CreeCree is an Algonquian language which is spoken primarily <strong>in</strong> Canada. There areapproximately 100,000 native speakers, who can be found from the Rocky Mounta<strong>in</strong>s <strong>in</strong>Alberta all the way to James Bay <strong>in</strong> northern Quebec.niwapahten 'I see' niwapahtenan 'We see'kimachishen 'You cut' kimachishenawaw 'You (pl.) cut'nitap<strong>in</strong>an 'We sit' nitap<strong>in</strong> 'I sit'kiwapahten 'You see' kiwapahtenawaw 'You (pl.) see'nimachishenan 'We cut' nimachishen 'I cut'kitap<strong>in</strong>awaw 'You (pl.) sit' kitap<strong>in</strong> 'You sit'PronounsVerbsI: see:You:cut:We:sit:You (pl.):II. Word-Formation ProcessesName the word-formation process exemplified by each of the follow<strong>in</strong>g derivations.1. Graphical User Interface → GUI2. professor → prof3. <strong>in</strong>formation + commercial → <strong>in</strong>fomercial4. dr<strong>in</strong>k → drank5. sandwich (named after John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich!)6. un- + rely + -able → unreliable7. w<strong>in</strong>d + shield → w<strong>in</strong>dshield8. orientation → orientate9. good → better10. a process → to process