Morphological segmentation and classification

Morphological segmentation and classification

Problem Set 1:

1. Morphological segmentation and classification
Segment the following words into morphemes if possible and classify the morphemes according to the parameters free-bound, lexical-grammatical and say whether they are

unique or portmanteau morphemes.

table, and, realise, redo, helped, diversity, agreement, does, windmill, truck driver, biochemistry, geology, rode, went, cockroach, unfriend, upon

2. Morphological analysis: Ilgar verbs
angbani ‘you sit’
ngawani ‘I sit’
yiwani ‘he sits’
yinybani ‘she sits’
awani they sit’
adbani ‘we (inclusive) sit’
kandijawa yiwalkbuyikbiny ‘the damper is burning’
angbalkbuyikbiny ‘you’re burning’
How would you say:
– ‘the trees are burning’ (‘trees’: arlirr)
– we excl. sit (‘we (excl.)’ ngad-)
How many allomorphs does the verb ‘sit’ have and how are they distributed, i.e. how do you know when to use which? Is the distribution lexical/morphological or

phonological?

3. What arguments can be presented for the view that units like -port (e.g. in transport), -mit (e.g. in transmit), -ceive (e.g. in deceive) should be considered

morphemes? What arguments can be presented for the opposite view that they are not morphemes? Which position do you find more convincing and why?
Start with the definition of the term morpheme and then think about whether these units fit this definition. But consider also your intuition and evidence of similar

words about the structure of these words, i.e. about whether they are complex or not.

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