Anthropology 1027A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Preposition And Postposition, Logical Consequence, Genitive Case
25 Mar 2015
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Practice problem: english past tense walked flipped huffed munched dragged fudged wheezed fitted padded. /p d d/ fined hissed hushed grabbed jogged /d heaved. How to do morphological analysis on a foreign language: find a pair of words whose english translations differ only in a single way, find the corresponding difference in the non english words often some letters will be added, or the word will be changed in some systematic other way, check your theory: find another pair of foreign words that produces the same pattern, morpheme order may not be the same as english, not every semantic contrast expressed in english (for example, a he/she distinction) will also be present in every other language, your language may also have semantic contrasts not present in english (for example, distinction between singular, dual and plural, remember that a morpheme can have more than one allomorph (e. g. english plural s ).
