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Linguistics Assignment Question
Question 1 (10 marks): Morphological structure
Consider the following data:
1. nimiʦita ‘I see you’
2. nikita ‘I see him’
3. tikmaka ‘you give it to him’
4. tineʧita ‘you see me’
5. nanneʧmaka ‘you (pl.) give it to me’
6. tikonmaka ‘you give it to him, Sir’
7. tikonitatihʦinoh ‘you see him, most honoured Sir’
8. tikonmakatihʦinohtikah ‘you give it to him, most very honoured Sir’
9. tineʧonita ‘you see me, Sir’
10. tineʧonmakatihʦinoh ‘you give it to me, most honoured Sir’
11. nanneʧonmakatikah ‘you (pl.) give it to me, honoured Sirs’
12. nanneʧonitatihʦinohtikah ‘you (pl.) see me, most very honoured Sirs’
13. tineʧonitatikah ‘you see me, honoured Sir’
14. nanneʧonmakatihʦinoh ‘you (pl.) give it to me, most honoured Sirs’
1. Write a lexicon.
2. What is the order of the types of morphemes in a word? (If you are unsure of the correct lexical category to give a morpheme, simply assign something sensible to that type.)
Question 2 (10 marks): Morphophonology
Consider the following data:
Ergative | Dative | Possessive | Dual | ||
1. | dog | wiribdi | wiribgu | wiribgina | wiribɟiram |
2. | crocodile | wariɟdi | wariɟgu | wariɟgina | wariɟɟiram |
3. | old man | guraŋni | guraŋgu | guraŋgina | guraŋɟiram |
4. | hawk sp | galbunni | galbungu | galbungina | galbunɟiram |
5. | man | ɟumbulni | ɟumbulgu | ɟumbulgina | ɟumbulɟiram |
6. | policeman | ŋalarni | ŋalargu | ŋalargina | ŋalarɟiram |
7. | person | majini | majiwu | majigina | majijiram |
8. | son | ɟugani | ɟugawu | ɟugagina | ɟugajiram |
1. Write a lexicon.
2. Write rules describing the allomorphic variations in the forms of any of the morphemes.
3. For each rule, state whether it is an assimilation rule, or a deletion rule. If it is an assimilation rule, describe the assimilation in words.