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LING 100 Tutorial Week 5 LING 100 Morphology The first 4 questions (1. Word Trees, 2. & 3. Morphology Data Sets, Sign language morphology) are required to be completed and submitted online before Friday, February 9th at 9 am. Other exercises in the tutorial handout are available for you to try, but are NOT required. These questions give you a sense of what sorts of questions you could get on the exam, assignment or quiz. Tutorial Exercises: Required Questions 1. Draw Word Trees Practice drawing word trees for each of the following words. a. tourists b. endearment c. irreplaceable i. For the 3 words above determine the following for the affixes: a. Which are bound and which are free? And what is the root? Tourists: Free morpheme (no affixes). Endearment: Both bound and free; "en-" and "-ment" are bound, and "dear" is free. Irreplaceable: Both bound and free; "ir-" and "-able" are bound, and "replace" is free. b. What kind of affix are they (e.g., infix, prefix, suffix, circumfix) and why? Prefix: "en-" and "ir-" Suffix: "-ment" and "-able" Circumfix: None 1 February 2024

LING 100 Tutorial Week 5 c. Which affixes are inflectional and which are derivational and why? Endearment: Both "en-" and "-ment" are derivational, they change the meaning and create a new word. Irreplaceable: Both "ir-" and "-able" are derivational; they modify the root to create a new word. ii. Provide one example of a word that is ambiguous (i.e., could have more than one word tree & that is reflected in different meanings) ‘bank’ Meanings: A financial institution The side of a river 2 February 2024

LING 100 Tutorial Week 5 2. Morphology Analysis Problem #1 – Kanuri (Nilo-Saharan) Consider the following data from Kanuri, which is spoken in Nigeria. a. What type of affix is illustrated by these data? (prefix, suffix, or infix) Suffix b. What is the form of the affix, and what is its approximate meaning? The suffix is "nem" Meaning: transformation into a quality or state associated with the base adjective. c. What is the change in grammatical category that is caused by the affix? changes the base adjective into a noun d. Given keji ‘sweet’, what is ‘sweetness’ in Kanuri? [nemkeji] e. Given nemnala ‘goodness’, what is ‘good’ in Kanuri? [nala] 3 February 2024

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