LIN 3010 - Assignment #4 - Theoretical Linguistics (30pts) Name: _____________________________________________________________ Group members (up to 3) ______________________________________________ 1. Morphology: Luisen̋o (Uto-Aztecan) (10pts) a. [nokaamay] ‘my son’ o. [pokaamay] ‘his son’ b. [ʔoki] ‘your house’ p. [poki] ‘his house’ c. [potaana] ‘his blanket’ q. [notaana] ‘my blanket’ d. [ʔohuukapi] ‘your pipe’ r. [pohuukapi] ‘his pipe’ e. [ʔotaana] ‘your blanket’ s. [nohuukapi] ‘my pipe’ f. [noki] ‘my house’ t. [ʔokaamay] ‘your son’ g. [pompeewum] ‘their wives’ u. [pomki] ‘their house’ h. [nokaamayum] ‘my sons’ v. [pomkaamay] ‘their son’ i. [popeew] ‘his wife’ w. [čampeewum] ‘our wives’ j. [ʔopeew] ‘your wife’ x. [čamhuukapim] ‘our pipes’ k. [čamhuukapi] ‘our pipe’ l. [ʔomtaanam] ‘your(pl) blankets’ m. [ʔomkim] ‘your(pl) houses’ n. [ʔomtaana] ‘your(pl) blanket’ A. Identify the following morphemes (including allomorphs) (7pts) ‘son’ ‘my’ ‘wife’ ‘our’ ‘house’ ‘your’ ‘blanket’ ‘your (pl)’ ‘pipe’ ‘his’ plural ‘their’ B. Morphological rule(s) & process(es) (3pts) Please circle either (i) There IS NO allomorphy involved, or (ii) There IS allomorphy involved (and describe, write, and name the rule): (i) There IS NO allomorphy involved (ii) There IS allomorphy involved Describe the rule(s) (in words): Write the rule(s) (formula): Name the rule(s): 2. Syntax: Ambiguity (10pts) The sentence Mary called a professor from Miami is ambiguous. Draw both trees and identify which meaning goes with each tree. Please note that your trees should be different in order to represent the difference in their meanings. Meaning #1: Tree #1: Meaning #2: Tree #2: 3. Semantics & Pragmatics (10pts) A. Select the best example for each type of the adjectival type (2pts) Answer Type Example (i) Anti-intersection (a) faux fur (ii) Non-intersection (b) gigantic nose (iii) Pure intersection (c) potential location (iv) Relative intersection (d) white rose B. Select the best example for each type of meaning relationship (3pts) Answer Relationship Example (i) complementary pair (antonymy) (a) create ~ produce (ii) converse pair (antonymy) (b) east ~ west (iii) gradable pair (antonymy) (c) hot ~ cold (iv) hyponymy (d) precede ~ follow (v) reverse pair (antonymy) (e) present ~ absent (vi) synonymy (f) rose ~ flower C. Maxims (2.5pts) Provide a short dialog between Speaker A and Speaker B in which speaker B violates ONE of Grice’s Conversational Maxims, e.g., manner, quality, quantity, OR relevance. Explain why this is a violation. (Note: Please do not reuse unmodified examples from the textbook or slides) Maxim: Dialogue: A: B: Explain: D. Utterances (2.5pts) Please choose one of the following and show it in the space below: Provide a pair of utterances (X & Y) that show an entailment relationship. Explain why X entails Y. Provide a context (X) and an utterance (Y) which has an implicature (Z). Explain why this is implied. Provide an utterance (X) which has a presupposition of (Y). Explain why this is presupposed. (Note: Please do not reuse unmodified examples from the textbook or slides) 2 0 6