2.
a. retro+act+ive
b. be+friend+ed
c. tele+vise
d. margin (no +)
e. en+dear+ment
f. psych+ology
g. un+palat+able
h. holi+day
3.
a. noisy crow is 3: adjective plus noun
b. eat crow is 7: idiom
c. scarecrow is 1: compound noun
d. the crow is 6: grammatical morpheme + lexical morpheme
e. crowlike is 2 or 5: root morpheme + derivational suffix
f. crows is 4: root morpheme + inflectional suffix
4.
a. -ed is 3: inflectional suffix
b. -civil- is 1: free root
c. -ize is 4: derivational suffix
d. luke- is 2: bound root
e. im- is 6: derivational prefix
5.A.
a. um- means ësingularí
b. aba- means ëpluralí
c. faz, fan, zal, fundis, etc.
B.
d. ëVerbí is --a
e. The nominal suffix is -i
f. Add the suffix -i to a stem, and add the prefix um- for the singular and aba-
for the plural
g. ëreadí is fund
h. ëcarveí is baz
8.
a.
-fik-: verb ëarriveí
-a: suffix meaning ëthis is a verbí
-me-: prefix attached to verbs indicating present perfect tense
-na-: prefix attached to verbs indicating present progressive tense
-ta-: prefix attached to verbs indicating future tense
wa-: noun prefix attached to plural nouns of Class I
wa-: prefix attached to verbs when the subject is a plural noun of Class I
-tu: ëmaní
-lal-: verb ësleepí
-su: ëknifeí
ki-: noun prefix attached to singular nouns of Class II
-anguk-: verb ëfallí
vi-: noun prefix attached to plural nouns of Class I
-u: may be a singular noun marked in at least some cases
-kapu: ëbasketí
b. The rule for verb construction is something like this.
Prefix1 + Prefix2 + Verb stem + Suffix, where
Prefix1 indicates singular or plural (a-/wa-, ki-/vi-) depending on the class of
the subject noun.
Prefix2 indicates the tense of the verb.
The Suffix (in these data, invariantly -a) indicates that this thing is a verb.
c. (1)ëThe child is fallingí is ëmtoto anaangukaí
(2) ëThe baskets have arrivedí is ëvikapu vimefikaí
(3) ëThe man will fallí is ëmtu ataangukaí
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