Ling 107

Sample Questions on Words, Word Meaning and Morphology

The questions on the first exam will be similar to the practice exercises at the end of the files in the textbook. You should be familiar enough with the material that was discussed in class to be able to work each problem without doing extensive searching in the text. I recommend looking over the following problems:

Date	Topic	Exercises
Jan. 14	The Science of Language	P. 30 #1, 2; P. 31 #12, 14, 15; P. 32 #21, 22
Jan. 19	Words	P. 176 #1-4; P. 177 #6; P. 178 #8, 9, 11, 12
Jan. 26	Word Meaning	P. 259 #1-3; P. 260 #4, 6; P. 261 #9-12; P. 262 #13-19
Feb. 2	Morphology	P. 180 #19-20; P. 181 #21-23; P. 182 #24-26; P. 187 #38
Feb. 9	Anthropological Linguistics	P. 560 #10-12; P. 561 #15, 16

There will also be one or two additional questions about the homework exercises that you turned in. For example, what is the difference between an inflectional and derivational morpheme?

The exam will be an open book, open note exam. I will not test your ability to repeat definitions of basic terms, but will test your ability to use linguistic terms to analyze language.