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What are the inflectional morphemes in these expressions? Have you eaten yet?
-en
What are the inflectional morphemes in these expressions? (b) Do you know how long I’ve been waiting?
-en, -ing,
What are the inflectional morphemes in these expressions? (c) She’s younger than me and always dresses in the latest style.
-er, -es, -est
What are the inflectional morphemes in these expressions? (d) We looked through my grandmother’s old photo albums.
-ed, -’s, -s,
What are the inflectional morphemes in these expressions? (e) My parents’ parents were all from Scotland.
-s’, -s
What are the allomorphs of the morpheme “plural” in the following set of English words? criteria, dogs, oxen, deer, judges, stimuli
a (OR on → a); -s; -en; Ø; -es or /-əz/; -i (OR -us → -i)
In Indonesian, the singular form translating “child” is anak and the plural form (“children”) is anakanak. What is the technical term used to describe this relationship?
reduplication (i.e. repeating all or part of a form as a way of indicating, for example, that a noun is plural).
Provide equivalent forms, in the languages listed, for the English translations shown on the right below. Ganda omuloŋgo (“twin”) – (“twins”)
abaloŋgo
Provide equivalent forms, in the languages listed, for the English translations shown on the right below. Ilocano tawtáwa (“windows”) – (“window”)
táwa
Provide equivalent forms, in the languages listed, for the English translations shown on the right below. Ilocano tálon (“field”) – (“fields”)
taltálon
Provide equivalent forms, in the languages listed, for the English translations shown on the right below. Kanuri nəmkəǰi (“sweetness”) – (“sweet”)
kəǰi
Provide equivalent forms, in the languages listed, for the English translations shown on the right below. Tagalog bili (“buy”) – (“will buy”)
bibili
Provide equivalent forms, in the languages listed, for the English translations shown on the right below. Tagalog kain (“eat”) – (“Eat!”)
kumain
