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Morphology: Cross-linguistic variation

Morphology: Cross-linguistic variation. Linguistics 200 Spring 2006. Word formation types. How are new words created? What is the structure of existing words? Morphology we have discussed so far (sequential) Affixation (prefixation, suffixation) Compounding Reduplication

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Morphology: Cross-linguistic variation

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  1. Morphology: Cross-linguistic variation Linguistics 200 Spring 2006

  2. Word formation types • How are new words created? What is the structure of existing words? • Morphology we have discussed so far (sequential) • Affixation (prefixation, suffixation) • Compounding • Reduplication • Non-sequential (simultaneous) types of morphology • Portmanteau morphemes • Consonant or vowel substitution • Other simultaneous morphology

  3. Portmanteau morphemes • Single phonological representation contains meanings from two (or more) semantic categories • Textbook equates portmanteau with blend—p. 99 (e.g. smog < smoke + fog) • Grammatical portmanteau morphemes do not have such transparent origins • An example from Tsek’ene (McLeod Lake dialect)

  4. Verbal time categories in Athabaskan languages • Athabaskan family (includes Tsek’ene, Witsuwit’en)f • Tense/aspect/mood categories • imperfective (aspect) • perfective (aspect) • future (tense) • optative (“mood”) (similar to subjunctive in Romance languages)

  5. A portmanteau morpheme in Tsek’ene [] = voiced velar fricative [w]/[u]- optative prefix

  6. [è] = low-toned [e] /i/- 1s perfective: simultaneously marks both person/number and perfective (a portmanteau morpheme) (/A- allomorphy in this paradigm)

  7. Consonant or vowel substitution • Sahaptin consonant symbolism • larger/more important/more intense/permanent – smaller/less important/less intense/temporary • q - k • n – l •  - š – s • č – ts

  8. Related pairs of words n - l

  9. q – k, X - x

  10. č – ts or š – s

  11.  - s  - š

  12. Ablaut = Root-internal vowel substitution English present past past participle sing sang have sung ring rang have rung drink drank have drunk

  13. Ablaut in Witsuwit’en verb root impf/opt perfective future -/qes/ ‘scratch hard’ –[qes] –[qez] –[q«s] -/q«z/ ‘do with arms’ –[qis] –[q«z] –[q«s] Ablaut pattern: /«/  /i/ in the imperfective/optative /e/  /«/ in the future (Also some root-final consonant changes.)

  14. Simultaneous morphemes in ASL MOTHER GIRL AUNT WOMAN

  15. BOY FATHER UNCLE MAN

  16. Some ASL morphemes chin (location) ‘female’ forehead (location) ‘male’

  17. Simultaneous morphemes in ASL the morphemes in MOTHER: chin (location) ‘female’ 5 (handshape) ‘parent’

  18. Simultaneous morphemes in Arabic Afro-Asiatic family Berber Chadic Cushitic Egyptian Omotic Semitic Hausa Arabic (SIL classification of Afro-Asiatic)

  19. “Arabic” • ‘Formal’ • Classical Arabic • Modern Standard Arabic • ‘Colloquial’ varieties

  20. Classical Arabic • variety spoken 7th-8th century A.D. • spoken over wide area of Middle East • used as ‘lingua franca’ (language of communication by speakers of other languages)

  21. Modern Standard Arabic • a.k.a. High Arabic, (Modern) Literary Arabic, Educated Spoken Arabic • learned at school • experience of speaker from Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) • grew up speaking Gulf Arabic • started learning MSA at age 10 • all middle, high school classes taught in MSA • what is taught at UW

  22. Modern Standard Arabic • ‘high’ functions, e.g. • broadcasting • giving a lecture • associated with religion (Islam) • needed to succeed in government • generally regarded as superior to colloquial • not universally known in Arabic world (varies with literacy rates)

  23. Colloquial Arabic • ‘low’ functions, e.g. • language of home • used among friends • large number of dialects. major dialect areas: • Arabian peninsula, Persian Gulf, Jordan • Mesopotamia (Iraq, except south) • Syria-Lebanon-Palestine-Cyprus (‘Levantine’) • Egypt, Sudan • Maghrib (Maghrebi) (west of Egypt) • eastern (E. Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Malta) • western (Morocco, W. Algeria) • Chad • varieties at geographical extremes may be mutually unintelligible

  24. Some predominantly Arabic speaking nations Malta Cyprus Israel Syria Iraq Morocco Algeria Tunisia Libya Egypt Yemen Saudia Arabic UAE

  25. Consonant inventory generalized colloquial Arabic inventory

  26. upper articulator lower articulator pharyngeal

  27. Phonetic descriptions of some Arabic consonants • [] = voiceless pharyngeal fricative • [] = voiced pharyngeal fricative • [t] = pharyngealized voiceless alveolar stop

  28. Pharyngeal fricatives • Gulf Arabic speaker • [] = voiceless pharyngeal fricative • [abb] ‘to kiss’ • [saan] ‘plate’ • cf. [h] = voiceless glottal fricative • [habb] ‘to blow’ • [sahal] ‘meadow’

  29. Pharyngeal fricatives • [] = voiced pharyngeal fricative • [a:f] ‘to feel disgust’ • [kaab] ‘heel’ • cf. [?] = glottal stop • [?akal] ‘(he) ate’

  30. Pharyngealized consonants ([C]) • Syrian Arabic speaker • Plain vs. pharyngealized consonants: • [ti:n] ‘figs’ [ti:n] ‘mud’ • [dal] ‘he pointed’ [dal] ‘he stayed’ • [tal] ‘hill’ [tal] ‘he peeped’ • [su:s] ‘licorice’ [su:s] ‘chick’

  31. Arabic verbal morphology forms of ‘write’

  32. Morphemes

  33. Simultaneous morphology Morphological structure of [kuutib] ‘was corresponded with’

  34. Verb root (consonants) [] = voiceless pharyngeal fricative; [] = voiced pharyngeal fricative

  35. Tense/voice/participle (vowels) /a/ perfective active /u i/ perfective passive /a/-, /a i/, /a u/, /a/ imperfective active /u/-, /a/ imperfective passive

  36. Sample awzaan causative, reciprocal, reflexive, etc.

  37. Morphology summary • Morphological competence. Native speakers know • which words are well-formed • meanings of multi-morphemic words • other properties of words (e.g. lexical category) • Morphological analysis • proceeds by comparing related words • Various strategies for forming words in different languages • Types of morphology (word formation) • sequential • affixation • simultaneous

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