Na’vi is an invented language which was created (by linguist…
Na’vi is an invented language which was created (by linguists) for the movie Avatar. It contains many properties of natural human language, including typical morphological and phonological rules. Study the Na’vi verbs in the dataset below and answer the questions that follow. makto ‘ride’ mamakto ‘rode (a long time ago)’ jur ‘wash’ jamur ‘washed (a long time ago)’ jimur ‘washed (recently)’ mimakto ‘rode (recently)’ maɪakto ‘will ride’ jaɪur ‘will wash’ haʊnu ‘protect’ haɪaʊnu ‘will protect’ himaʊnu ‘protected (recently)’ stamarsim ‘gathered (a long time ago)’ staɪarsim ‘will gather’ stimarsim ‘gathered (recently)’ a. What is the Na’vi morpheme meaning ‘gather’? [gather] b. What is the Na’vi morpheme meaning ‘Recent Past Tense’? [recent-past] c. What is the Na’vi morpheme meaning ‘Distant Past Tense’? [distant-past] d. What is the Na’vi morpheme meaning ‘Future Tense’? [future] e. What type of word formation process is used to express Tense in Na’vi? [formation] f. If [ fpil ] is the Na’vi word meaning ‘think’, how would you say ‘thought (recently)’ in Na’vi? [thought]
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Consider the verb forms from the imaginary language Caqon. (Note: assume Caqon has the same rules for syllabifying words as English. Also, each vowel is the nucleus of its own syllable.) saqi ‘s/he runs’ saqiqi ‘s/he is running’ botin ‘s/he swims’ botitin ‘s/he is swimming’ ombu ‘s/he thinks’ ombubu ‘s/he is thinking’ qumes ‘s/he talks’ qumemes ‘s/he is talking’ dalbon ‘s/he leaps’ dalbobon ‘s/he is leaping’ binduza ‘s/he wonders’ binduduza ‘s/he is wondering’ azdore ‘s/he asks’ azdodore ‘s/he is asking’ a. What type of word formation process is used to express Progressive Aspect in Caqon? [process] b. Which part of the base is targeted for copying when creating the Progressive morpheme? [target]
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The provider has ordered a repeat screen and when Abby returns for her 28-week appointment, her result is 148. At an appointment a few days later, an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) indicates that three of her four values are elevated. You and Abby update her plan of care to include changes to promote control of her blood glucose levels. You know that Abby understands the importance of good glycemic control when she tells you the risks associated with GDM (select all that apply):
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Consider the following data from Slavey, an Athabaskan language spoken in Canada. (1) si tu t’ah nahek’eh taehsenih I water with you baptize ‘I baptize you with water.’ (2) si ‘ela tahla ni kodeyihsha I boat landed that know ‘I know that a boat landed.’ (a) Based on this data, what is the value of the Syntactic Head Parameter in Slavey? [head-parameter] For which of the following phrases do you have explicit evidence about the Head Parameter in this dataset? (b) NP [NP] (c) PP [PP] (d) VP [VP] (e) S [S] (f) CP [CP] (g) What is the Phrase Structure rule for the Slavey VP in example (1)? [baptize] (h) What is the Phrase Structure Rule for the Slavey expression “boat landed that” in (2)? [boat-landed-that]
Read DetailsSD is a 54 year old patient receiving treatment five days a…
SD is a 54 year old patient receiving treatment five days a week in an outpatient, intensive outpatient program. For the last eleven years he was taking Chlorpromazine (Thorazine) yet has recently started to experience pill rolling and tongue thrusting; signs of tardive dyskinesia. His MD started him on Clozapine (Clozaril) 25 mg BID two weeks ago. His CBC was drawn yesterday. His ANC is 2000 u/L and his WBC is 6000 per microliter. As the RN caring for SD, your next action should include:
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Assume the Social Security tax rate is 6.0% on the first $100,000 of annual earnings for each employee. What would be the amount of the Social Security tax to withhold from an employee whose gross pay prior to this pay period was $102,000 and his gross earnings for this weekly pay period is $3,000?
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