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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