The following nouns are from Cebuano, a language of the Philippine Islands. a. [bisaja] a Visayan...

 

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The following nouns are from Cebuano, a language of the Philippine Islands. a. [bisaja] a Visayan b. [inglis] an Englishman f. [binisaja] g. [ininglis] the Visayan language the English language h. [tinagalog] the Tagalog language c. [tagalog] a Tagalog person d. [ilokano] an Ilocano i. [inilokano] the Ilocano language e. [sibwano] a Cebuano j. [sinibwano] the Cebuano language (1) What is the morpheme that turns a name of an ethnic group into a language name? (2) State the rule (in words, precisely) for deriving language names from the names of ethnic groups. (3) Is the morpheme that you identified in (1) a prefix? Why? Is it a suffix? Why? The following nouns are from Cebuano, a language of the Philippine Islands. a. [bisaja] a Visayan b. [inglis] an Englishman f. [binisaja] g. [ininglis] the Visayan language the English language h. [tinagalog] the Tagalog language c. [tagalog] a Tagalog person d. [ilokano] an Ilocano i. [inilokano] the Ilocano language e. [sibwano] a Cebuano j. [sinibwano] the Cebuano language (1) What is the morpheme that turns a name of an ethnic group into a language name? (2) State the rule (in words, precisely) for deriving language names from the names of ethnic groups. (3) Is the morpheme that you identified in (1) a prefix? Why? Is it a suffix? Why?

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