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Morphology in Other Languages TURKISH

This document provides morphology practice exercises for Turkish and Czech. For Turkish, it lists 16 example words with their English translations and asks the learner to identify morphemes, word order, and translate phrases. For Czech, it lists 14 verbs with pronouns and tense/location markers and asks similar identifying and translation questions. The goal is to practice analyzing the morpheme structure of words in these two languages.

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Morphology in Other Languages TURKISH

This document provides morphology practice exercises for Turkish and Czech. For Turkish, it lists 16 example words with their English translations and asks the learner to identify morphemes, word order, and translate phrases. For Czech, it lists 14 verbs with pronouns and tense/location markers and asks similar identifying and translation questions. The goal is to practice analyzing the morpheme structure of words in these two languages.

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Linguistics 201

Turkish

Turkish is an Altaic language. It is the official language of Turkey and is spoken


by about 50 million people worldwide.

1. deniz 'an ocean' 9. elim 'my hand'


2. denize 'to an ocean' 10. eller 'hands'
3. denizin 'of an ocean' 11. dishler 'teeth'
4. eve 'to a house' 12. dishiminiz 'of our tooth'
5. evden 'from a house' 13. dishleriminiz 'of our teeth'
6. evjikden 'from a little house' 14. eljike 'to a little hand'
7. denizjikde 'in a little ocean' 15. denizlerimizde 'in our oceans'
8. elde 'in a hand' 16. evjiklerimizde 'in our little houses'

A. Give the Turkish morpheme which corresponds to each of the following


English translations.

ocean: in: my:

house: to: of:

hand: from: our:

tooth: [plural]: little:

B. What is the order of morphemes in a Turkish word (in terms of noun, plural
marker, etc.)?

C .How would you say "of our little hands" in Turkish?

D. Give the English translation for the Turkish form "dishjiklerden".


Czech (this one's tricky!):

Czech is a Slavic language which is spoken by about 10 million people, primarily


in the Czech Republic.

nesu ‘I carry’ yedu ‘I drive’


ponese ‘He will carry’ ponesu ‘I will carry’
povedete ‘You (pl) will lead’ yede ‘He drives’
poplavu ‘I will swim’ nese ‘He carries’
priplavesh ‘You will swim here’ odnesou ‘They will carry away’
priyedou ‘They will drive here’ odplavete ‘You (pl.) will swim away’
odvedeme ‘We will lead away’ poplaveme ‘We will swim’
odyede ‘He will drive away’ prineseme ‘We will bring here’
poyede ‘He will drive’ prinese ‘He will bring here’
nesou ‘They carry’ odvedu ‘I will lead away’
plavou ‘They swim’ odnesesh ‘You carry away’
vedeme ‘We lead’

A. Identify the Czech morphemes which correspond to the following English


translations:

Verbs Pronouns Tense, Location


carry: I: here:
bring: he: away:
lead: we: will:
drive: you:
swim: you (pl.):
they:

B. What is the order of these morphemes in Czech (in terms of verbs, pronouns,
tense, location)?

C. Provide Czech translations for the following English sentences:

1. He will swim.

2. They drive away.

3. You lead away.

4. I will bring here.

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