exercise_Morphology

Homework 4: Morphology – Due June 17

1. Consider the following words. Underline all of the stems. Circle all of the bound morphemes. Identify the lexical category (part of speech for each)

Ex.fish (noun)

fly reuse spiteful preplan desks suite

untie delight fastest prettier tree justly

deform mistreat dislike payment disobey premature

2. The following sentences contain both derivational and inflectional affixes. Underline all of the derivational affixes and circle the inflectional affixes.

Ex. She played with her beautiful baby.

a) The farmer’s cows escaped.b) She replaced the valuable vase.

c) Those socks are inexpensive. d) Jim needs a newer copy.

e) The strongest rower continued. f) She quickly closed the book.

g) The team scored a lot. h) That apartment needs some plants.

3. Examine the following data from Persian (or Farsi). All of the following Persian words consist of two or more morphemes. (Note: xar means …buy? and –id means the past tense.)

a) xaridam ‘I bought’b) xaridi ‘you (sg) bought’

c) xarid ‘(he) bought’d) naxaridam ‘I did not buy’

e) namixaridand ‘they were not buying’f) naxaridim ‘we did not buy’

g) mixarid ‘(he) was buying’h) mixaridid ‘you (pl) were buying’

( i) Try to match each of the following notions with a morpheme in the Persian data.

(ex) I = am(a) you (sg) = (b) we = (c) you (pl) =

(d) they = (e) not = (f) was/were + -ing (continuous) =

(ii) How would you say the following in Persian?

(a) They were buying. =

(b) You (sg) did not buy. =

(b) You (sg) were buying. =

4. Examine the following data from Turkish and answer the questions that follow. Be aware that the spelling has been altered for ease – this is NOT accurate either phonologically or orthographically.

a. deniz ‘an ocean’i. elim ‘my hand

b. denizin ‘of an ocean’j. eller ‘hands’

c. denize ‘to an ocean’k. disler ‘teeth’

d. eve ‘to a house’l. disimizin ‘of our tooth’

e. evden ‘from a house’m. dislerimizin ‘of our teeth’

f. evjikden ‘from a little house’n. eljike ‘to a little hand’

g. denizjikde ‘in a little ocean’o. denizlerimizde ‘in our oceans’

h. elde ‘in a hand’p. evjiklerimizde ‘in our little houses’

* NOTE: Ignore the indefinite article (a/an) in the English translations.

(i) Give the Turkish morpheme that corresponds to each of the following translations:

(ex) ocean = deniz(a) house = (b) hand = (c) tooth = (d) little =

(e) in = (f) to = (g) from = (h) my = (i) of =

(j) our = (k) plural marker =

(ii) Now give a rule stating the order of morphemes in which is in a Turkish word. Here are the possible classes of morphemes that you could have: noun, preposition, plural marker, determiner. Your task is to give a rule that shows the order in which these morphemes are combined.

(iii) How would one say “of our little hands” in Turkish?

5. Draw a tree structure for each word. (Use a separate sheet of paper.)

a. untie

b. invalid

c. dislike

d. replaceability

e. ageless

f. oversimplification

g. payment

h. preplan

i. fastest

j. reuse

k. disobey l. optionality m. prettier n. mistreat o. preview

p. unhappiness

Ex. revisit

verb

verb

re-visit