Morfologia

Name: Díaz Albany
Morphology Exercises
Lic. Isabel Castillo
Morphology Exercises
Lic. Isabel Castillo
Consider the following data from Swahili (a language spoken in East Africa) and answer thequestions that follow:
1. [atanipenda]‘s/he will like me’ 15. [atanipiga] ‘s/he will beat me’
2. [atakupenda] ‘s/he will like you’ 16. [atakupiga] ‘s/he will beat you’
3. [atampenda]‘s/he willlike him/her’ 17. [atampiga] ‘s/he will beat him/her’
4. [atatupenda]‘s/he will like us’ 18. [ananipiga] ‘s/he is beating me’
5. [atawapenda]‘s/he will like them’ 19. [anakupiga] ‘s/he isbeating you’
6. [nitakupenda]‘I will like you’ 20. [anampiga] ‘s/he is beating him/her’
7. [nitampenda]‘I will like him/her’ 21. [amekupiga] ‘s/he has beaten you’
8. [nitawapenda]‘I will like them’22. [amenipiga] ‘s/he has beaten me’
9. [utanipenda]‘you will like me’ 23. [amempiga] ‘s/he has beaten him/her’
10.[utampenda]‘you will like him/her’ 24.[alinipiga] ‘s/he beat me’11.[tutampenda] ‘we will like him/her’ 25.[alikupiga]‘s/he beat you’
12.[watampenda]‘they will like him/her’ 26.[alimpiga] ‘s/he beat him/her’
13.[wametulipa]‘they have paid us’ 27. [atakusumbua] ‘s/he willannoy you’
14.[tulikulipa] ‘we paid you’ 28. [unamsumbua]‘you are annoying
him/her’
a. Give the Swahili morphemes corresponding to the following English translations.
ni ___I____ tu___We__ me have_
lipa _Paid__ penda __like_ na _to be_
a _he/she__ sumbua _annoy_ ta _will_ni __Me___ m _him_ li _him/her_
piga _Beat__ wa _they___ u _You_

b. Give theSwahili word for the following English translations:

1. ninamlipa - I am paying him
2. wananipiga - they are beating me

3. wamenisumbua - they have annoyed me
4. umetupiga – You have beated...