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Ling 201 October 1st, 2009Professor Oiry

Your name:

Test 1: Morphology

WRITE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE ON THE TEST SHEET AND USE AN

EXTRA SHEET PAPER OTHERWISE.READ THE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY. YOU WON’T GET ALL THEPOINTS IF YOU DON’T GIVE A COMPLETE ANSWER .

1. Finding Affixes (32 points) (2 points for each correct complete answer)

In each group of four words below, two words have the same type of affix,

one word has a different affix, and one word has no affix at all. Next to

each word write S (same), D (different) or N (none), as appropriate. Ifapplicable, say what kind the affix is (derivational or inflectional).

a. rider, colder, silver, thinkerrider, thinker S (derivational)colder D (inflectional)

silver N

b. dresses, melodies, Bess’s, guessdresses, melodies S (inflectional)Bess’s D (inflectional)

guess N

c. boys, lens, windows, calculatesboys, windows S (inflectional)

calculates D (inflectional)lens N

d. untie, uncle, unhappy, unleash

untie, unleash S (derivational)unhappy D (inflectional)uncle N

2. Chamorro (18 points)

I. Root Derived word

adda ‘mimic’ aadda ‘mimicker’kanno ‘eat’ kakanno ‘eater’

tuge ‘write’ tutuge ‘writer’



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II. Root Derived word

atan ‘look at’ atanon ‘nice to look at’

sangan ‘tell’ sanganon ‘tellable’chalek ‘laugh’ chalekon ‘laughable’ngangas ‘chew’ ngangason ‘chewable’

III. Root Derived word

dankolo ‘big’ dankololo ‘very big’

bunita ‘pretty’ bunitata ‘very pretty’

a. When looking at the Chamorro words, describe how the derived word iscreated from the root in I, in II, in III. For each of I, II and III, which word

formation process is at work? (/9: 3 points per complete answer *3).

I reduplication of the first syllable (V or CV)II affixation du suffix -onIII reduplication of the last syllable (CV)

b. When looking at the English glosses, what changes in the parts of speech

take place in I, in II, in III between the root and the derived word? (/9: 3 points percomplete answer *3)

I verb -- noun

II verb -- adjective III adjective -- adjective

4) Telugu (/28) Each of the following words in Telugu (a Dravidian language spoken in India) is

translated into English by an entire sentence. Each word is composed of severalmorphemes. Analyze the words by identifying the morphemes occurring in eachword, and answer the following questions.

a. ceppeenu ‘I told’ h. ceppeem ‘We told’b. adugutaam ‘We will ask’ i. kodataanu ‘I will beat’c. ceppanu ‘I won’t tell’ j. paadataanu ‘I will sing’

d. cuustaam ‘We will see’ k. ceppeeru ‘You told’e. ceppeeyi ‘They told’ l. kodateeyi ‘They beat’f. ceppincunu ‘I cause (someone) to tell’g. navvincum ‘We cause (someone) to laugh’



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1. Identify the following Telugu morphemes (/20)

a. tell b. laugh c. beat d. sing

cepp navv kodat paadat

e. ask f. see g. I h. you

adugut cuust nu ru

i. we j. they k. cause (someone) to

m yi incu

l. past tense (a morpheme corresponding to the regular English –ed ) (/2)-ee-

m. future tense (a morpheme corresponding to English will ) (/2)-aa-

n. negative future tense (a morpheme corresponding to English won’t ) (/2)

-a-2. Translate the following English sentences in Telugu. (/2)o. They will not laugh navvayi p. We sang paadateem

4. Timugon-Murut (/22)

bulud hill bubulud ridgelimo five lilimo about five

ulampoy - ulalampoy no glossabalan bathes ababalan often bathes

ompodon flatter ompopodon always flatter

1. What word formation processes are at work? (/2)

reduplication (and infixation)2. Write a clear and unambiguous rule to describe how you go from column 1

to column 2. (/15)Reduplicate the first syllable of the CV form.

3.

Use your rule to predict how you would say the following words from column

1 into words from column 2 (/5):

pamiris right papamirisansak to cook ansasak

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