Chapter 6 Identifying Grammatical Morphemes Morphology Lane 333
Identifying grammatical morphemes Languages vary in the ease of their grammatical morphemic structure Turkish has very transparent word structure, Latin less so
Person & number Often in data we have indications to both person & number Person: 1. 1 st person (I, We) 2. 2 nd person (you) 3. 3 rd person (He, she, it, they) Number: 1. singular 2. plural 3. dual (in some languages, e.g. Arabic)
Turkish Data 6.1
Exercise 6.2/3 what is the stem meaning ‘come’ and what means: I You (sing) He/she We You (pl.) They ‘past tense’
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