in Assamese Bipasha Patgiri Assistant Professor Program for Linguistics EFL Department TU Morphophonemics Morphophonemics or morphophonology is the study of phonemic differences between allomorphs of the same morpheme a description of variations in a particular language ID: 370422
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Morphophonology in Assamese
Bipasha Patgiri
Assistant Professor, (Program for Linguistics)
EFL Department, TUSlide2
Morphophonemics
Morphophonemics or
morphophonology
is the study of phonemic differences between allomorphs of the same morpheme; a description of variations in a particular language.
In English, the vowel changes in
‘sleep’ - ‘slept’
‘bind’ - ‘bound’
‘vain’ - ‘vanity’Slide3
And the final consonant changes in: ‘knife’- ‘knives’
‘loaf’ - ‘loaves’
Points:
Allomorphs are not generally arbitrary,
But, they are not even completely irregular.In languages, there exist exceptions so in morphophological patterns.
MorphophonemicsSlide4
Assamese negative prefixation
In Assamese, the morpheme /
nai
/ is
cliticised as /-nɔ/ to the base./kɔra
/ = /
nɔkɔra
/ ‘Neg.do.2P.Pres
Perf
’
/
likʰa
/
= /
nilikʰa
/ ‘Neg.write.2P.Pres
Perf
’
/
dɛkʰɛ
/ = /
nɛdɛkʰɛ
/ ‘Neg.see.2P.Pres
Perf
’
/
sala
/ = /
nasala
/ ‘Neg.see.2P.Pres
Perf
’
/
hɔba
/ = /
nɔhɔba
/ ‘Neg.be.2P.Pres
Perf
’
/
pʰura
/ = /
nupʰura
/ ‘Neg.loiter.2P.Pres
Perf
’Slide5
State the distribution:
Assamese negative
prefixationSlide6
What is the underlying form of the negative prefix or clitic in Assamese?
The process is called
vowel copying
as the first vowel of the root verb is copied exactly to the prefix.
Assamese negative prefixationSlide7
Assamese derivational suffix /-ia/
/
pani
/ ‘water’ + /-
ia/ = /pɔnia/ ‘mixed with water, dilute’/lon
/ ‘salt’ + /-
ia
/ = /
lunia
/ ‘salty’
/
dʱol
/ ‘drum’ + /-
ia
/ = /
dʱulia
/ ‘one who plays on a
dhol
’
/
sɔka
/ ‘wheel’ + /-
ia
/ =/
sokia
/ ‘wheeler’
What is happening here?Slide8
State the name of the process:
Vowel harmony of height feature.
Assamese derivational suffix /-
ia
/Slide9
/sap/ + /-ɔnia/ = /sɔpɔnia/ ‘dependent’
/
bʱag
/ + /-
ɔnia/= /bʱɔgɔnia/ ‘emigrant’/bila/ + /-
ɔnia
/=
/
bilɔnia
/ ‘distributor’
What is happening?
Which vowel is changed?
Assamese derivational suffix /-
ɔnia
/Slide10
Some example from Assamese
Changes in the front vowels:
/
pɛ
t/ ‘belly’ but, /
petula
/ ‘pot bellied’
/
x
ɛ
ta
/ ‘dull’
but,
/
xeteli
/ ‘wet bed’
/
bʱekola
/ ‘a kind of big frog’
but,
/
b
ʱ
ekuli
/ ‘frogs’
/
m
ɛ
l
/
‘to open’
but,
/
meli
/ ‘having opened’ Slide11
What is happening?
Which vowel is changed?