ConLangs Lecture 7: morphology - MIT OpenCourseWare€¦ · English Tagalog. big banana-s mga...
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Morphology
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cat cat-s dog dog-s
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cat cat-s dog dog-s
cat, dog, -s à morphemes
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• bound vs. free
English Tagalogbig banana-s mga malalaking saging
PL big banana 'big bananas'
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• bound vs. free
English Tagalogbig banana-s mga malalaking saging
PL big banana 'big bananas'
English Passamaquoddy my friend n- itap (*itap)
my friend
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• prefix vs. suffix
English Lardil dance-d yuud- luuli
PAST dance 'danced'
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Sometimes a word has more than one affix attached to it…
ni-li-ki-pata ‘I got it’ [Swahili]I-PAST-it-get
wi-chen-moH-laH ‘We can create it’ [Klingon]we.it-take.form-CAUSE-CAN
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of course, not all morphemes are this easy to find...
Tagaloglumangoykumain tumaas bumili umawit umakyatumihi umuwi
'swam' 'ate' 'became tall' 'bought''sang''climbed' 'urinated' 'went home'
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Tagalog: infixes lumangoy 'swam' kumain 'ate' tumaas 'became tall' bumili 'bought' umawit 'sang' umakyat 'climbed' umihi 'urinated' umuwi 'went home'
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Ablaut
singswim drink speakdrive
sang swam drank spokedrove
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templates: Egyptian Arabic
sakan 'he lived in' daxal 'he entered' baskun 'I live in' badxul 'I entered' uskun 'live in!' udxul 'enter!' saakin 'one who lives in' daaxil 'one who enters'
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templates: Egyptian Arabic
sakan baskun uskun saakin
'he lived in' 'I live in' 'live in!' 'one who lives in'
daxal badxul udxul daaxil
'he entered' 'I entered' 'enter!' 'one who enters'
-a-a- 'past, 3rd' ba - - u - 'past, 1st' u - - u - 'imperative' -aa-i- 'one who...'
s-k-n 'live in' d-x-l 'enter'
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Reduplication: Tagaloglalangoy 'will swim' kakain 'will eat' tataas 'will become tall' bibili 'will buy'aawit 'will sing'aakyat 'will climb' iihi 'will urinate' uuwi 'will go home'
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Reduplication: Tagaloglalangoy 'will swim' kakain 'will eat' tataas 'will become tall' bibili 'will buy' aawit 'will sing' aakyat 'will climb' iihi 'will urinate' uuwi 'will go home'
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Reduplication, part 2: more Tagalogmataas 'tall' mataas-taas 'rather tall' malapit 'close' malapit-lapit 'rather close' maliwanag 'bright' maliwa-liwanag 'rather bright'matalino 'intelligent' matali-talino 'rather intelligent'
--> partly specified for phonological content (just number of syllables)
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Truncation: O'odham
imperfectñeok
perfectñeo
ñeid ñei hi:nk hi:n meḍ me golonsiṣp
golosiṣ
'speak''see' 'bark' 'run' 'rake' 'nail'
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Tone: Dinka (Nilotic, Sudan)
Bòl ‘Bol (man’s name)’
mánh è Bôl ‘Bol’s brother’ brother of Bol
The name Bol is normally low-toned, but takes falling tone in the genitive case.
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Mutation: Welsh
pêl ‘ball’ y bêl ‘the ball’ tref ‘town’ y dref ‘the town’ cath ‘cat’ y gath ‘the cat’ basged ‘basket’ y [v]asged ‘the basket’ desg ‘desk’ y [ð]esg ‘the desk’ golchwraig ‘washerwoman’ yr olchwraig ‘the washerwoman’ merch ‘girl’ y [v]erch ‘the girl’
Feminine nouns undergo the soft mutation after the definite article…
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Mutation: Welsh
pêl ‘ball’ tref ‘town’ cath ‘cat’ basged ‘basket’ desg ‘desk’ golchwraig ‘washerwoman’ yr olchwraigmerch ‘girl’ y [v]erch
y bêly drefy gathy [v]asgedy [ð]esg
‘the ball’ ‘the town’ ‘the cat’ ‘the basket’ ‘the desk’ ‘the washerwoman’ ‘the girl’
Feminine nouns undergo the soft mutation after the definite article…
Sindarin
pântawar calad benn daw galadhmellon
‘plank’‘forest’ ‘light’‘man’ ‘darkness’ ‘tree’ ‘friend’
i bân i dawar i galadi venn i [ð]awi aladh i vellon
‘the plank’‘the forest’ ‘the light’‘the man’ ‘the darkness’ ‘the tree’ ‘the friend’
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Nothing?: English
cat cat-s dog dog-s sheep sheep-Ø
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• sound • meaning• bound vs. free • prefix vs. suffix (vs. infix...)
...
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industri-al -al attaches to a ... nation-al autumn-al
*assert-al *impress-al *industrializ-al
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industri-al -ation creates ... *industrializ-al industrializ-ation-al
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lexicon contains morphemes, with information on:• sound • meaning• bound vs. free • prefix vs. suffix• what kind of morpheme they can attach to• what kind of category they create
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In fact, sometimes the information about what a morpheme can attach to isn't justinformation about categories:
sincere chaste scarce curious
-ity -ity -ity -ity
deepwide
-th -th
warm -th
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And there can be idiosyncratic information about what happens when the morphemes combine, too:
electri[k]-alelectri[s]-ity
hum humm-ed leap [lep]-t go [wen]-t sing sang
• -i[k] and -i[s],leap and [lep]-[d] and -[t] are allomorphs; different forms that a single morpheme takes in combination withother morphemes.
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Tagalog again
lumangoy ‘swam’ lalangoy ‘will swim’
bumili ‘bought’ bibili ‘will buy’
kumain ‘ate’ kakain ‘will eat’
what are the past and future tense morphemes?
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Tagalog again
lumangoy ‘swam’ lalangoy ‘will swim’
bumili ‘bought’ bibili ‘will buy’
kumain ‘ate’ kakain ‘will eat’
what are the past and future tense morphemes?now, suppose I tell you that the present tense has both of these
morphemes…what do you expect it to look like?
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Tagalog again
lumangoy ‘swam’ lumalangoy ‘is swimming’ lalangoy ‘will swim’
bumili ‘bought’ bumibili ‘is buying’ bibili ‘will buy’
kumain ‘ate’ kumakain ‘is eating’ kakain ‘will eat’
what are the past and future tense morphemes?now, suppose I tell you that the present tense has both of these
morphemes…what do you expect it to look like?
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• a morpheme may be a prefix, a suffix, an infix...
English Lardil Tagalogdanced yuud-luuli sumayaw
• a morpheme may be bound or free...
English Turkish in my hand el -im -de
hand my in
English Mohawk I bought a bed Wa'- ke- nakta-hnínu-'
PAST 1sgS bed buy PUNCT
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In fact, languages are sometimes informally classified by how likely their morphemes areto be bound.
Isolating languages; not many bound morphemes
Chinese Ta chi fàn le he eat meal PAST 'He ate the meal'
Polysynthetic languages; opposite of isolating
Wampanoagnu-pâhk-nuhtô-peepeenaw-uchuchôhq-ôkan-uhtyâ -eenun -eum -unôn-ak1 clear skill look reflection device make person POSS 1PL AN.PL 'our very skillful mirror makers'
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Agglutinative languages; morphemes easily separable from each other
Turkish tanõ -sh -tõr -õl -dõ -lar know each-other cause passive past 3PL 'They are introduced to each other'
Fusional/inflectional languages; morphemes tend to squash together
Russian komnat -u room Feminine.Singular.Accusative
komnat -y room Feminine.Plural.Accusative
brat -a brother Masculine.Animate.Singular.Accusative
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