{"id":301,"date":"2017-05-30T17:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T00:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artoflanguageinvention.com\/cal\/?p=301"},"modified":"2017-05-30T17:31:54","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T00:31:54","slug":"may-30-introduction-to-nominal-morphology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoflanguageinvention.com\/cal\/2017\/05\/30\/may-30-introduction-to-nominal-morphology\/","title":{"rendered":"May 30: Introduction to Nominal Morphology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we jumped into nominal morphology. Nouns are the <i>best<\/i>. As you look at nouns, start to think, &#8220;How could this noun evolve into a bit of morphology?&#8221; Conversely, when you look at a suffix or prefix, think about, &#8220;Where might this thing have come from?&#8221;<\/p>\n<h1>Material From Today&#8217;s Class<\/h1>\n<h4>PDFs<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/papers\/w2d1_ling183.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Class Slides<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Links<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/IAmA\/comments\/1chmc4\/eseneziri_im_david_peterson_the_creator_of_the\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit AMA where we did a bunch of words for butterflies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/etymonline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Etymonline.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dsal.uchicago.edu\/dictionaries\/burrow\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Dravidian Etymological Dictionary<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lrc.la.utexas.edu\/lex\" target=\"_blank\">Proto-Indo-European Lexicon<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Assignments<\/h1>\n<h4>Reading<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>AoLI Chapter 2, pp. 113-135<\/li>\n<li>AoLI Chapter 2, pp. 153-158 <i>(Optional)<\/i><\/li>\n<li>AoLI Chapter 3, pp. 184-197<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Practice<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Since we&#8217;ve started work on nouns, let&#8217;s create some words! Using some of the etymological resources listed above, come up with two new nouns that are likely to be basic, and post their proto- and modern forms to our <b>#lexicon<\/b> channel. (Try to do different ones from those who post before you, but I won&#8217;t hold you to having to create totally unique words. Do at least one unique one!)<\/li>\n<li>Using Wikipedia, find a natlang that has a case system (something other than unmodified and oblique\u2014three or more cases, on the nouns and the pronouns), and post it to our <b>#morphology<\/b> channel. (Note: A language like Japanese that has postpositions that are explicitly for basic case? Still counts.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Mastery<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><i>(None Today)<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Backburner<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/papers\/ling183_ma3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s an early look at MA3<\/a>. You probably won&#8217;t be able to do much (or any) of it now, but I at least want you to start thinking about.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/papers\/ling183_ma4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Ditto MA4<\/a>, which is the next stage of your language.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we jumped into nominal morphology. Nouns are the best. As you look at nouns, start to think, &#8220;How could this noun evolve into a bit of morphology?&#8221; Conversely, when you look at a suffix or prefix, think about, &#8220;Where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artoflanguageinvention.com\/cal\/2017\/05\/30\/may-30-introduction-to-nominal-morphology\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoflanguageinvention.com\/cal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoflanguageinvention.com\/cal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoflanguageinvention.com\/cal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoflanguageinvention.com\/cal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoflanguageinvention.com\/cal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/artoflanguageinvention.com\/cal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/artoflanguageinvention.com\/cal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoflanguageinvention.com\/cal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoflanguageinvention.com\/cal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoflanguageinvention.com\/cal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}