Linguistics 101B: Introduction to Linguistics
Spring 2025
Assignment 2: Morphology (40 points)
1. Place a plus sign (+) between morphemes in each word listed below and label each
morpheme as bound (B) or free (F) and as root (R) or affix (A). (10 points)
Example:
reading=read+ -ing
FR+BA
a.telephone
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b.infirm
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c.farm
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d.skateboard
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e.ranchers
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f.actor
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g.inaccessibility
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h.ducklings
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i.countess
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2. Below is an Ilocano dataset.Identify a morpheme that is of interest in the dataset, what
type of affix it is, and what it means. (6 pts)
dal
a
langoy
pabuya
sugal
‘study’
‘swim’
‘show’
‘gamble’
agadalan
p
paglangoyan
pagpabuyaan
pagsugalan
a. What is the morpheme?
b. What type of affix is it?
c. What does this affix mean?
‘school’
‘swimming pool’
‘theater’
‘casino’
. Develop morphology trees for the following words. Be sure to label the part of speech of the
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stem at each level of the tree. (12 pts)
a. speakers
b. inflectional
c. reliably
d. uptalked
e. assertions
f. unrestricted
. Consider the following data from Isleta, a dialect of Southern Tiwa, a Native American
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language spoken in New Mexico, and answer the questions that follow. (12 pts)
temiban
tewanban
temiwe
‘I went’
‘I came’
‘I am going’
miban
a
mimiaj
tewanhi
‘you went’
‘he was going’
‘I will come’
a. List the morphemes corresponding to the following English translations. (1 pt each; 9
pts)
_______
_
________
________
________
________
‘I’
‘you’
‘come’
(past progressive)
(future)
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_
________
________
________
b. What is the order of morphemes in Isleta? (3 pts)
‘go’
‘he’
(present progressive)
(past)
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