Linguistics 210 Assignment: Morphemes, Swahili and Stress Patterns

This assignment explores the morphological structure of words, focusing on morphemes and their role in word formation. The assignment analyzes Swahili and Korean, examining their unique linguistic characteristics. It investigates the concepts of bound and free morphemes, and demonstrates the application of stress rules in compound words. The study includes examples of Swahili verb conjugations and their English translations. The assignment also includes the analysis of the stress patterns in words. This assignment provides a comprehensive overview of morphological analysis and its application in understanding different languages.

Morphology
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In this paper, one would go through the morphological structure of data set, besides gaining an
understanding of the
Morphemes are the smallest significant parts in a language; these can be divided into bound and
free morphemes. Bound cannot stay independent, whereas free morphemes cannot be further
divided into smaller meaningful syllables. Swahili hails from Africa and the same has been
studied in respect to English language. Besides, stress on phrases has been analyzed as well.
In this paper, Swahili translations into English branch has also been studied. Besides, Korean
morphemes have also been studied.
In the word ‘finance’: two syllables- fi-nance; Stress syllable looks like- ˈfʌɪnans, here the word
stress falls on the first syllable; it also depends on the pronunciation of the word ‘finance’.
In the word ‘labor’: two syllables- la-bor; Stress syllable looks like- ˈleɪbə, here the word stress
falls on the first syllable.
a. Ni, li, na, ta, me, ni, ni, tu, tu, u, ku, a, m, wa, wa, piga, lipa, penda
b.
Words Swahili
they liked me: walipenda yangu
they will annoy you: watakusumbua
you paid us: ulichotulipa

we liked them: tuliwapenda
I will pay him/her: nitamlipa
c.he will pay me
you will beat them
they liked you
I hurt her
Korean Morphemes
[pam] [nun] [hjON] [pul] [ot] [kot] [tSha] [mogi] [namu] [so] [noóe]