Question
WALS Chapter 26 scores languages on two opposing indexes, finding a typological bias against this strategy for inflectional morphology. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this rarer of the two main strategies languages use for derivation, seen in Coptic, the Siberian isolate Ket, and strongly exemplified by Bantu languages, which may even have an extra vocalic “augment.”
ANSWER: prefixation [or using mostly/more prefixes than suffixes; accept prefixal or prefixing language; prompt on affixation or concatenation] (The keywords “suffixing preference” or “suffixation preference” point to related research. WALS is the World Atlas of Language Structures. The augment is a mysterious pre-prefix in Bantu.)
[10e] 22 Bantu prefixes mark these categories into which nominals are divided, like people, plants, and round things. A partition into two of these groups, usually masculine and feminine, is called grammatical gender.
ANSWER: noun classes [or nominal classes; or morphological class; prompt on class; reject “noun classifiers”]
[10m] Prefixing correlates with VO word-order and the “initial” value for this concept’s directionality parameter, which decides if a language’s syntax trees mainly branch left or right in the dated P&P framework. In X-bar theory, phrases inherit their syntactic category from these terminal nodes.
ANSWER: heads [or head word; accept “headed by”; accept head-directionality parameter or head parameter; accept head-initial or head-final; accept headedness principle]
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| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| LMM's LLM MLM | BHSU B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |