LING 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Ethiopian Aristocratic And Court Titles
20 Oct 2015
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Regular classroom, regular time (unless at pmc) Covers everything up to & including today"s class. Focus on practice sheets & assignments for studying. If you miss midterm, you get 0 (unless you have a doctor"s note) If you"re sick, contact prof as soon as possible. Purpose: to understand morphological patterns of unfamiliar language. We compare words w/ similar meanings to piece apart individual morphemes. Example: zapotec (indigenous language of mexico: pizaanaya my sister" pizaannoo our sister". Pizaanalo your (sg) sister" pizaannatoo your (pl) sister". Pizaannani his/her sister" pizaannani their sister": all of the wordsd star w/ [pizaan]. [pizaan] means sister": [aya] = my [noo] = our. [alo] = your (sg) [natoo] = your (pl) Tells us that [am] = i" & [i] means you. sg". Verify this by finding same sequence of sounds in other words w/ morpheme meaning i" & you. sg": compare another 2 words that differ by 1 morpheme, such as (iii) & (vii) differs only be negation.
