Uppgift: Lesson 3 morphophonology exercise

AF1211 V23 Typologi och språkliga strukturer i afrikanska språk
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Try to account for the following occurrences of surface forms of nouns in the Bantu language Ndengeleko. The underlying form is based on the plural form of the noun. What are the rules in this language depending on the affix and the stem?

NC/

NN

Noun

Underlying

English

Noun class

mp | mpʊ́ʊŋga | /mu-pʊnga/ | ‘rice plant’ | (cl.3)
mb | mbʊtɪpʊ́tɪ | /N-putɪputɪ/ | ‘bat’ | (cl.9/10)
mm | mmáya | /mu-baya/ | ‘bad person’ | (cl.1)
nt | ntóte | /mu-tote/ | ‘hyena’ | (cl.3)
nd | ndáka | /N-taka/ | ‘filth’ | (cl.9/10)
nn | nnála | /mu-lala/ | ‘leaf’ | (cl.3)
ɲɲ | ɲɲááŋgo | /mu-lyango/ | ‘door’ | (cl.3)
ŋk | ŋkóóŋgo | /mu-kongo/ | ‘tree’ | (cl.3)
ŋg | ŋgalaŋgála | /N-galangala/ | ‘cheetah’ | (cl.9/10)
ŋŋ | ŋŋáaŋga | /mu-ganga/ | ‘healer’ | (cl.1)
ns | nséeŋgo | /mu-sengo/ | ‘home’ | (cl.3)
| nsíka | /mu-sika/ | ‘waist beads’ | (cl.3)

nz

[nz/nj]

nzátɪ

/N-satɪ/

‘buffalo’

(cl.9/10)

Try to account for the following occurrences of surface forms of nouns in the Bantu language Ndengeleko. The underlying form is based on the plural form of the noun. What are the rules in this language depending on the affix and the stem?

NC/

NN

Noun

Underlying

English

Noun class

mp | mpʊ́ʊŋga | /mu-pʊnga/ | ‘rice plant’ | (cl.3)
mb | mbʊtɪpʊ́tɪ | /N-putɪputɪ/ | ‘bat’ | (cl.9/10)
mm | mmáya | /mu-baya/ | ‘bad person’ | (cl.1)
nt | ntóte | /mu-tote/ | ‘hyena’ | (cl.3)
nd | ndáka | /N-taka/ | ‘filth’ | (cl.9/10)
nn | nnála | /mu-lala/ | ‘leaf’ | (cl.3)
ɲɲ | ɲɲááŋgo | /mu-lyango/ | ‘door’ | (cl.3)
ŋk | ŋkóóŋgo | /mu-kongo/ | ‘tree’ | (cl.3)
ŋg | ŋgalaŋgála | /N-galangala/ | ‘cheetah’ | (cl.9/10)
ŋŋ | ŋŋáaŋga | /mu-ganga/ | ‘healer’ | (cl.1)
ns | nséeŋgo | /mu-sengo/ | ‘home’ | (cl.3)
| nsíka | /mu-sika/ | ‘waist beads’ | (cl.3)

nz

[nz/nj]

nzátɪ

/N-satɪ/

‘buffalo’

(cl.9/10)