Assignment 5
Due Tuesday, March 13
1.0
Drawing Trees for English Words
On a separate sheet of paper, please draw trees for each of the following words. For each, answer
the following questions, where applicable:
1.1 Is this word formed through compounding? Or through derivation?
1.2 Which morpheme is the head for each word?
1.3 Identify the base(s) for (b) and (c).
(a)
litterbox
(b)
unclear
(c)
redoable
2.0
Ambiguous Trees
There are two trees that can be drawn for the following string of phones in English:
unzippable [ʌnzɪpəәbəәl]
2.1 Please draw the two trees.
2.2 The two trees correspond to two possible meanings. For each tree, tell me what the word
means.
3.0
Write a New Morphological Rule in English
Consider the following data:
reread
redo
rewrite
*recat
*rehappy
*refrog
Please answer the following questions:
3.1 What meaning does the morpheme ‘re’ [ri] contribute?
3.2 What category of word does this morpheme combine
with?
3.3 What type of word is formed from re+(the kind of word
‘re’ combines with)?
3.4 Write a morphological rule for ‘re’.
1 The following data come from Swahili, a language spoken in East Africa.
Strategy tip: As you solve any morphology problem like this one, keep in mind the order of affixes
you work towards a solution.
Note: If you kept track of the order of affixes, you should have found
that they
combineProblem
in this order: subject-tense-object-root (verb)
4.0 Swahili
Morphology
This was particularly useful for answering Section B.
Consider the following words in Swahili.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
A.
atanipenda
atakupenda
atampenda
atatupenda
atawapenda
nitakupenda
nitampenda
nitawapenda
utanipenda
utampenda
tutampenda
watampenda
wametulipa
tulikulipa
atanipiga
atakupiga
atampiga
ananipiga
anakupiga
anampiga
amekupiga
amenipiga
amempiga
alinipiga
alikupiga
alimpiga
atakusumbua
unamsumbua
‘s/he will like me'
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‘s/he will like you’
‘s/he will like him/her’
‘s/he will like us’
‘s/he will like them’
‘I will like you’
‘I will like him/her'
‘I will like them'
‘you will like me'
‘you will like him/her’
‘we will like him/her’
‘they will like him/her’
'they have paid us'
'we paid you'
's/he will beat me
's/he will beat you'
's/he will beat him/her'
's/he is beating me'
's/he is beating you'
's/he' is beating him/her'
's/he has beaten you'
's/he has beaten me'
's/he has beaten him/her'
's/he beat me'
's/he beat you'
's/he beat him/her'
's/he will annoy you'
'you are annoying him/her'
Give the Swahili morphemes which mean:
1. I
2. him/her
3. s/he
4. me
5. they
___ni-_______
___m-_______
___a- ______
___ni-_______
___wa-______
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
we
you (subject)
you (object)
us
them
___tu-_______
___u- ______
___ku-_______
___tu-_______
2 ___wa-______
4.1
Based on the data above, please give the Swahili morphemes which mean:
‘I’
‘we’
‘you (subject)’
‘s/he’
‘they’
4.2
Based on the data above, please give the Swahili morphemes which mean:
Future
Past
Present Progressive
Present Perfect
4.3
‘me’
‘us’
‘you (object)’
‘him/her’
‘them’
(e.g., They will run)
(e.g., They ran)
(e.g., They are running)
(e.g., They have run)
Based on the data above, please give the Swahili morphemes which mean:
‘pay
‘beat’
‘like’
‘annoy’
4.4
In what order do the morphemes in the Swahili verbs occur?
4.5
Please translate the following English words into Swahili:
a. ‘I have beaten them.’
b. ‘They are beating me.’
c. ‘They have annoyed me.’
d. ‘You have beaten us.’
e. ‘I am paying him/her.’
4.6
Please translate the following Swahili words into English:
a. walikupenda
b. utawapiga
c. nimemsumbua
d. atanilipa
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