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LINB10 Morphology

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Homework 2 (50 points. 10 % of final grade)

GRADE: _____________ / 50 points

Indicate Team Number (from Quercus):

1. Student’s first and last name :

Student number :

2. Student’s first and last name :

Student number :

Instructions

1. The work must be submitted via Quercus (no work will be accepted via e-mail).

2. Deadline for submission: April 3 (11:59pm), no work will be accepted after this date

without justification.

3. The homework contains 5 exercises, but only one document must be submitted by one team

member.

4. You will both receive the same grade.

5. The homework must be submitted in PDF format.

6. Keep the Word page format (Letter paper, margins and Times New Roman 12 font).

7. You may refer to your notes, the course textbook, lecture slides, dictionaries or even other

sources. Please cite all your references, including any course notes, textbooks,

websites, and AI tools.

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Exercise 1 – English (9 points)

Use the verb observe as a base and create :

a) A derived word (it must have one derivational affix)

b) Indicate the meaning of the affix.

c) Provide the morphological tree of the derivative

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Exercise 2 – French (8 points)

You will need to consult a French-English dictionary.

Each word is suffixed.

Based on the examples provided, for each suffix:

a) What type of base (syntactic category) does the suffix attach to

b) Determine if the suffix is “savant” or “populaire”.

1. choriste

2. coloriste

3. curiosité

4. nervosité

5. jeunesse

6. tristesse

7. fumoir

8. dortoir

9. hospitalis(-er) (this -er is an inflectional suffix that expresses the infinitive form of verbs)

10. chistianis(-er)

11. accessible

12. lisible

13. lavage

14. patinage

15. japonais

16. hollandais

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Exercise 3 – Wayuunaiki (6 points)

Consider the following verbs in their infinitive form:

1. ainjaa ‘to do’

2. aapawaa ‘to take’

3. aakataa ‘to remove’

4. apütaa ‘to leave’

5. aa ayajirawaa ‘to argue’

6. akaalinjaa ‘to help’

7. ashijawaa ‘to wash’

8. a’yatawaa ‘to work’

There are two conjugation groups in Wayuunaiki.

a) Divide the verbs from the list in two groups.

b) What is the difference between them (explain in two-three sentences)

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Exercise 4 – Wayuunaiki (9 points)

Consider now the sentences with the verb atunkaa ‘to sleep’

1. atunküshi taya ‘I (masc.) slept’

2. atunküsü taya ‘I (fem.) slept’

3. atunküshi pia ‘you (sing. masc.) slept’

4. atunküshii waya ‘we slept

5. atunküshii jia ‘you (pl.) slept’

a) Identify the inflectional morphemes in the verb.

b) How do you say ‘you (sing.fem.) slept’

c) Provide the Leipzig glossing of the example 4.

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Exercise 5 – Wayuunaiki (18 points)

5.1.

With the help of the Wayuunaiki-English dictionary, associate the noun and the meaning

1. awalaa a. ‘melon’

2. warutta b. ‘nose’

3. atünaa c. ‘brother’

4. kakuuna d. ‘jewelry’

5. kuluulu e. ‘arm’

6. meruuna f. ‘snail’

7. ayeewaa g. ‘fabric’

8. e’ichii h. ‘tongue’

9. ajapüü i. ‘watermelon’

10. kalapaasü j. ‘hand’

5.2.

Wayuunaiki has a distinction between alienable and inalienable nouns.

a) Divide the nouns in two groups.

b) How do we distinguish them in Wayuunaiki (explain in two-three sentences)

5.3.

Using the following examples as data, explain (in one paragraph):

How do we express possession in Wayuunaiki

tatüna ‘my arm’

te ichi ‘my nose

tajapü ‘my hand’

pütüna ‘your arm’

pi’ichi ‘your nose’

nütüna ‘his arm’

najapü ‘his hand’

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