Part 1. Morphology

Question 1: Take the four English words below and (i) divide each word into its separate morphemes using hyphens; then (ii) list each morpheme, and state whether it is free or

bound, and whether it is a root or an affix. For each affix, state whether it is a prefix or a suffix, and whether it is derivational or inflectional. Affixes should also have hyphens on the appropriate side of the morpheme to indicate whether they are prefixes or suffixes.

In your answer, follow this example for the word escapees:

(i) escape-ee-s

(ii) escape: free, root

-ee: bound, suffix, derivational

-s: bound, suffix, inflectional

Q1a:flattery

Q1b: impossibilities

Q1c: inflatable

Q1d: shown

Question 2: Consider the examples given below from Language X, a language of the eastern Amazonian region of Brazil, and answer the questions following.

Q2a     List all of the roots and their meanings.

Q2b    List all of the affixes and their meanings or functions.  If a particular meaning is indicated by the absence of a morpheme, you should list it as a zero morpheme.

Q2c     What is the order of morpheme types in the verb? (For example, in English nouns the order is Root-Number e.g. house-s; in the Pocomchi example we discussed in the lectures the order of verbs was Subject-Object-Root, etc.)

Q2d    The root -nyẽto- in this language means ‘jump ’. How would you translate ‘she jumps’?

Part 2. Syntax: constituent structure

Question 3: The following sentence is ambiguous:

The artist drew the child with the crayons

Q3a  Describe the two meanings of this sentence

Q3b  Using the rules on page 58 of the subject manual, provide a phrase structure tree for each meaning, and explain how the two different phrase structures account for the difference in meaning.