posted Apr 30, 2016, 1:47 PM by Lynn Gordon
The answers to the sample final exam are now posted here and linked on the Course Materials page. It is protected with the Class Dropbox password.
Question: How do we answer the question about the order of morphemes (question 8(b))? Answer: After you’ve identified the morphemes, pick out the words with the most morphemes—then pull them apart and state the order in which they occur. So from the Turkish data,
ellerinize ‘to your (pl) hands’ = el-ler-in-iz-e ‘hand’ Noun Root - Plural - 2nd Person Possessor - Plural Possessor - ‘to’ Case Marker evlerimiz ‘our houses’ = ev-ler-im-iz ‘house’ Noun Root - Plural -1st Person Possessor - Plural Possessor - no Case Marker
Check some shorter words:
ev-im-iz ‘our house’ = ‘house’ Noun Root - 1st Person Possessor - Plural Possessor
el-ler ‘hands’
el-ler-im ‘my hands’
Now you can see, when a word contains all the overt morphemes it can, they come in the order
Noun Root - Plural - Person of Possessor - Plural Possessor - Case Marker
Only the noun root must occur to make a noun, so
Noun Root (- Plural) (- Person of Possessor) (- Plural Possessor) (- Case Marker) |
posted Apr 29, 2016, 3:02 PM by Lynn Gordon
As noted in class today, I forgot to post the handout on English compounds. It's now linked to the Course Materials page and available here. |
posted Apr 22, 2016, 4:26 PM by Lynn Gordon
Do the sample final exam ( available here) and distributed in class, before class on Friday, 29 April 2016. |
posted Apr 19, 2016, 3:03 PM by Lynn Gordon
posted Apr 8, 2016, 7:01 PM by Lynn Gordon
- Given the following set of English words, please describe their semantic relationships in terms of synonymy, hyponymy, and antonymy. If the words are opposites, identify them as complementary antonyms, gradable antonyms, converses or reverse antonyms. speak yell whisper scream shout
Use the notion of analytic, contradictory and
synthetic sentences to describe the differences in the meaning and truth values
in these sentences.
a.
My boss is a man.
b.
The queen of England is a man.
c.
My paternal grandfather is my father's father. The
utterance The organist extracted himself from the
wreckage presupposes that _________________________________________________________ Grice stated a set of maxims or postulates which he proposed govern the speech of a cooperative participant in a conversation. The maxims are listed below. Using whichever of these maxims seems relevant (either as something being adhered to or being violated), explain how the following remark could be interpreted as a compliment and how they could be interpreted as an insult. What can I say about that movie? Well, the music was beautiful. Be specific as to what conditions must hold for each interpretation and how those conditions together with the Gricean maxims determine the hearer's interpretation. Grice's Maxims ("Logic and conversation", in Syntax and Semantics: Speech Acts, 1975, edited by Peter Cole and Jerry Morgan: 45-7): 1. The Maxim of Quantity a. Make your contribution as informative as is required (for the current purposes of the exchange). b. Do not make your contribution more informative than is required. 2. The Maxim of Quality: Try to make your contribution one that is true. a. Do not say what you believe to be false. b. Do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence. 3. The Maxim of Relevance: Be relevant. 4. The Maxim of Manner: Be perspicuous. a. Avoid obscurity of expression. b. Avoid ambiguity. c. Be brief (avoid unnecessary prolixity). d. Be orderly.
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posted Apr 2, 2016, 3:46 PM by Lynn Gordon
The semantics homework is linked on the Course Materials page and here and due in the Class Dropbox before class on Wednesday, 6 April. |
posted Mar 25, 2016, 9:16 PM by Lynn Gordon
The next quiz is scheduled for Monday, 28 March. It will consist of the same kind of questions as those on the last homework assignment. |
posted Mar 21, 2016, 4:24 PM by Lynn Gordon
The first syntax homework is available here and on the Course Materials page. |
posted Mar 2, 2016, 4:27 PM by Lynn Gordon
The next quiz is scheduled for Friday, 4 March. |
posted Feb 27, 2016, 12:57 AM by Lynn Gordon
Morphology Assignment #2 is now due before class on Wednesday, 2 March 2016.
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