Section 6. February 11, 2005. Morphology I -- Solution 1.

Morphological components Segment the following words into root and derivational affix(es). Identify the grammatical category of the root, the affix(es) and the derived word. Are any of the affixes inflectional? Is any of the affix/root an allomorph of its base form? Example: orderliness [[[order]N li]A ness]N 1. absorbent 2. defamation 3. freedom 4. purify 5. arrival 6. employee 7. generative 8. motorizes 9. childish 11. Roman Inflectional affixes: motorize--s capitalizer--s employer--s Allomorphy: purify pur/pure arrive arriv/arrive generative generat/generate lengthen -- long/leng [[absorb]V ent]A [[defam]V ation]N [[free]A dom]N [[pur]A ify]V [[arriv]V al]A [[emply]V ee]N [[generat]V ive]A [[[motor]N ize]V s]V [[child]N ish]A [[Rom]N an]A/N 12. Vietnamese [[Vietnam]N ese]A/N

13. capitalizers [[[[capital]A ize]V er]N s]N 14. lengthen 15. employers 16. fastest 17. digestion 18. encircle 19. Protestant 20. unaware [[[leng]A th]N en]V [[[employ]V er]N s]N [[fast]A est]A [[digest]V ion]N [en [circle]N]V [[Protest]V ant]N [un [aware]A]A

10. employment [[employ]V ment]N

2. Michoacan Aztec morphology Examine the following words from Michoacan Aztec, a language of Mexico, and answer the questions that follow. 1. nokali 2. nokalimes 3. mokali 4. ikali 5. nopelo my house my houses your house his house my dog 6. mopelo 7. mopelomes 8. ikwahmili 9. nokwahmili your dog your dogs his cornfield my cornfield

10. mokwahmili your cornfield

Give the Michoacan morphemes for the following: house dog cornfield kali pelo kwahmili my his your noimo-

plural marker -mes his dog

What is the English translation for the Michoacan word ipelo? How would you say his cornfield in Michoacan? 3. Sierra Popoluca morphology

ikwahmilimes

Siera Popoluca is a Mixe-Zoquen language spoken in Veracruz State, Mexico. [e:] stands for a long [e] sound. The symbol [] represents a sound like n, formed further back in the mouth (just like Spanish ). There is one slight twist in this problem. Hint: What`s special about the morpheme that marks the plural of sheep in English? The past tense of hit and put? 1. mipa 2. mium 3. miyahpa 4. miyahum 5. miumtyim he comes he came they come they came he also came 7. se:tpa 8. se:tyahpa 9. se:tyahum 10. se:tpanam 11. se:tpatyim he returns they return they returned he still returns he also returns

6. miyahumtyim they also came

12. se:tyahpanam they still return

Give the Sierra Popoluca morphemes for the following: come still return they past tense also he mi-nam se:t-yah-um -tyim null morpheme

present tense -pa

What is the Sierra Popoluca equivalent of the following? they still come he returned miyahpanam se:tum

Give the English equivalent for the following: se:tyahumtyim miumnam they also returned he still came