Homework answers for Ch. 2 - Anthropology

Homework Answers – Chapter 2: Morphology2c. hyperactivity: hyper + act + ive + ityhypertension actor native nativityhyperbole action passive passivityN->Adj Adj->N3A. The Spanish infinitive morpheme: -ar; the English counterpart: ‘to’B. verb->adjective morpheme: -able; means: to be ableC. verb->noun morphemes: -acion, or -ador; means: the thing caused by the verb, or theone who performs the action of the verb4e. *Two shevelled tourists entered the small village.- “shevelled” is a bound morpheme; although we recognize shevelled asderived from dishevelled and correctly identify dis- as a morpheme signifyingthe opposite of the word it’s attached to, shevelled only has meaning in thisone form, dishevelled.6.Affix Words Meaning Word Class-dom Freedom, wisdom, A state or condition N, adj->N-ese Legalese, Chinese, Lebanese Indicating origin N, adj->adj-ize Minimize, rationalize To make Adj ->Vdys-Dyslexia, dysfunctional,dystopiaImpairment, etcN, adjmega-Megabyte, megaphone,megatonSpecific measure of onemillion, generally very bigNpara-Paradox, paraphrase,paradigmBeside, beyondN12A. Morphemes indicating 3 rd person singular present: -e, -ne, -je, -i, -aB. Morphemes indicating the 3 rd pers. sing. Past: -l, -el, -alC. Morphemes indicating the 1 st pers. sing. present: -u, -nu, -ji, -im, -amD. Morphemes indicating the imperative: ø, -ni, -j, -ejE. Roots: nes, tisk, kry, saz, del

Text Questions7a. to form an infinitive in Dutch: root + -enb. to form the Dutch past participle form: ge- + root + -d (this is a circumfix, not a prefixand a suffix; without both morphemes, no meaning is added)8a. nouns: -toto ‘child’, -tu ‘person’, -kapu ‘basket’, -su ‘knife’;verbs: -fika ‘to arrive’, -lala ‘to sleep’, -anguka ‘to fall’;prefixes: m- attached to singular nouns of class 1, a- attached to verbs when the subject isa singular noun of class 1, wa- plural prefix for nouns and verbs of class 1, me- prefixindicating past tense, na- prefix indicating present tense, ta- prefix indicating futuretense, ki- prefix attached to singular nouns and verbs of class 2, vi- prefix attached toplural nouns and verbs of class 2b. The verb is constructed: class/number prefix + tense prefix + verbc1. The child is falling: mtoto anaanguka2. The baskets have arrived: vikapu vimefika3. The person will fall: mtu ataanguka13Ba. I – -vungab. you (sing) – -vutitc. she/he/it – -vuqd. see – takue.work – sanaf.know – quajimag. want to – -jumah.start to – -sii.be (is/am/are) – -uj.father – ataataC. I am a teacher: ilinniaqtittijiuvungaYou eat: nirivutitI start to think: isumasivungaD. Gender is unspecified.The data available does not allow for an analysis of tense because all words are in thesame tense.The indefinite article ‘a’ is indicated by the morpheme ‘u’, attached as a suffix to thenoun.