English/Linguistics 415Homework #25 Tuvaluan,
Turkish, Aztec, Tiwa
1. In the Niutao dialect of Tuvaluan, a Polynesian
language in which syllables are either CV or V, some verbs and adjectives have different forms with singular and
plural subjects, as in these examples: singular plural kai kakai ‘eat’ mafuli mafufuli
‘turned around’ fepaki fepapaki ‘collide’ apulu apupulu ‘capsize’ nofo nonofo ‘stay’ masei masesei ‘bad’ takato takakato ‘lie down’ valea valelea ‘stupid’ Describe the rule of
morphology that derives the plural forms of these verbs and adjectives from the
singular forms.
Reduplicate the penultimate syllable (the next to the last syllable from the end). 2. Examine the following data from Turkish and answer
the questions that follow. a.
[deniz] ‘an ocean’ i. [elim] ‘my hand’ b.
[denize] ‘to an ocean’ j. [eller] ‘hands’ c. [denizen] ‘of an ocean’ k. [dišler] ‘teeth’ d. [eve] ‘to a house’ l. [dišimizin] ‘of our tooth’ e.
[evden] ‘from a house’ m. [dišlerimizin] ‘of our teeth’ f.
[ev jŕIkden] ‘from
a little house n. [el jŕIke] ‘to
a little hand’ g.
[deniz jŕIkde]
‘in a little
ocean’ o. [denizlerimizde] ‘in our oceans’ h.
[elde] ‘in a hand’ p. [ev jŕIklerimizde] ‘in
our little houses’
A. Give the Turkish morpheme
which corresponds to each of the following English translations. __deniz____ ocean ___de_____ in ____im____
my __ev______ house ___e______
to ____in/en___ of __el______ hand ___den____ from ____imez___ our __diš_____ tooth ___ler_____ plural ____jŕik____ little B. What is the order of morphemes in a Turkish word (in terms of noun, plural marker, etc.)?
noun + adj. + plural + pronoun + prep C. How would one say ‘of our little hands’ in Turkish?
eljŕIklerimizin 3. Examine the following words from Michoacan Aztec, a
language of Mexico, and answer the questions that follow. a.
[nokali] ‘my house’ f. [mopelo] ‘your dog’ b.
[nokalimes] ‘my houses’ g. [mopelomes]
‘your dogs’ c.
[mokali] ‘your house’ h. [ikwahmili] ‘his cornfield’ d.
[ikali] ‘his house’ i. [nokwahmili] ‘my cornfield’ e.
[nopelo] ‘my dog’ j. [mokwahmili]
‘your cornfield’ A. Fill in the blanks with
the corresponding Michoacan morphemes: ___kali____ house
____no____ my ___pelo____ dog ____mo____ your __kwahmili__ cornfield ____i_____ his ___mes_____ plural marker B. What is the English translation for the Michoacan word [ipelo]?
his dog C. How would you say ‘his cornfields’ in Michoacan? ikwahmilimes 4. Consider the following data from Isleta, a dialect
of Southern Tiwa, a Native American language spoken in New Mexico, and answer
the questions that follow. a.
[temiban] ‘I went’ d. [mimiay] ‘he was going’ b.
[amiban] ‘you went’ e. [tewanban] ‘I came’ c.
[temiwe] ‘I’m going’ f. [tewanhi] ‘I will come’ A. List the morphemes
corresponding to the following English translations. ____te____ I ____wan___ come ____we____ present progressive ____a____ you ____mi_____ go ____ay_____ past progressive ____mi____ he ___hi______ future ___ban____ past
B. What sort of affixes are the subject morphemes?
prefixes C. What sort of affixes are the tense morphemes?
suffixes D. What is the order of morphemes in Isleta?
pronoun + stem + tense subject + verb + tense E. How would you say each of
the following in Isleta? 1. ‘he went’
mimiban 2. ‘I will go’
temihi 3. ‘you were coming’
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