香港中文大学2012汉语语言学与语言习得专业ma笔试题.pdfVIP

THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG 2011-12 CUHK Recruitment Test MA in Linguistics MA in Chinese Linguistics and Language Acquisition Name __________________________ Email __________________________ Phone __________________________ University __________________________ City __________________________ Province __________________________ 1 THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG Part One 1. Consider the following verbs from Tohono O’odham, a Native American Language belonging to the Uto-Aztecan family, and answer questions A and B. Tohono O’odham English translation Singular 1. ñeok speaks 2. him walks 3. dagkon wipes 4. helwuin is sliding 5. ’ul sticks out Plural 1. ñeñeok we/you/they speak 2. hihim we/you/they walk 3. dadagkon we/you/they wipe 4. hehelwuin we/you/they are sliding 5. ’u’ul we/you/they stick out Questions A. Describe, as precisely as you can, how the plural verbs are formed from the singular verbs. (What must be done to a singular form in order to convert it into a plural form?) B. What is the name of the morphological process illustrated in the data? 2