Uppgift: Lesson 5 linguistic question

AF1211 V23 Typologi och språkliga strukturer i afrikanska språk
2022-10-28T05:28:22Z

Sista inlämningsdatum: 26 mar 2023 kl. 23.59

For a language of your choice (an African language; one you haven't written on before this time!), find out the following and post here. When you have posted, you can see the postings of your peers and can discuss them.

You need to classify your language along the parameters presented in Velupillai and Tucker.

Fusion: to which degree do morphological markers attach to a stem: are there isolating markers? concatenative or non-linear (non-concatenative) markers?

Exponence: how many grammatical categories can be expressed by one and the same morpheme?

Flexitivity: how much allomorphy is there?

Synthesis: can you find analytic, synthetic (or even polysynthetic) processes in the language?

Please write about all the above parameters (see Velupillai), for this specific language. You do not need to include compounding and reduplication, as you wrote about that in lesson 4.

This linguistic question is more extensive than the previous ones, but since there is less reading this lesson, you can put some more time into this. I expect your analysis to be at least 1A4 page. Do not forget the references! (not links)

For a language of your choice (an African language; one you haven't written on before this time!), find out the following and post here. When you have posted, you can see the postings of your peers and can discuss them.

You need to classify your language along the parameters presented in Velupillai and Tucker.

Fusion: to which degree do morphological markers attach to a stem: are there isolating markers? concatenative or non-linear (non-concatenative) markers?

Exponence: how many grammatical categories can be expressed by one and the same morpheme?

Flexitivity: how much allomorphy is there?

Synthesis: can you find analytic, synthetic (or even polysynthetic) processes in the language?

Please write about all the above parameters (see Velupillai), for this specific language. You do not need to include compounding and reduplication, as you wrote about that in lesson 4.

This linguistic question is more extensive than the previous ones, but since there is less reading this lesson, you can put some more time into this. I expect your analysis to be at least 1A4 page. Do not forget the references! (not links)