Morphology Cross-linguistically
Morphology Cross-linguistically: follow the instructions below:
- Cebuano
The following nouns are from Cebuano, a language of the Philippine Islands. Examine them and answer the questions that follow.
a. [bisaja] ‘a Visayan’
b. [inglis] ‘an Englishman’
c. [tagalog] ‘a Tagalog person’
d. [ilokano] ‘an Ilocano’
e. [sibwano] ‘a Cebuano’
f. [binisaj a] ‘the Visayan language’
g. [ininglis] ‘the English language’
h. [tinagalog] ‘the Tagalog language’
i. [inilokano] ‘the Ilocano language’
j. [sinibwano] `the Cebuano language’
i. State the rule (in words, precisely) for deriving language names from the names of ethnic groups.
ii. What type of affixation is this?
Syntax
Please provide the Phrasal category of the underlined words:
1) She decided to go up to the guy that was delivering milk.
2) She engineered a new type of metal.
3) I believe the whole time that she got the award.
Provide a syntax tree for the following sentence:
1) The parrot flew into the room.