1. What are the Sanskrit morphemes for the following? 2. What are the allomorphs for ‘mind’, ‘wonder’, and ‘devout’? 3. What are the conditioning environments here for the allomorphs? 4. Based on the data given here, what morphological type of language is Sanskrit (Analytic, agglutinating, fusional or polysynthetic language?
2. Sanskrit Examine the following data from Sanskrit, a classical language of India. Abbreviations are for case (use in the sentence) and number (singular, plural). ‘s is a retroflex. a. manas mind (nom.sg./stem)’ 1. vapuse wonder (dat.sg.)’ b. manasi mind (loc.sg.)’ m. vapurbhyas wonder (dat.pl.) c. manasa mind (inst.sg.)’ n. vapusas ‘wonder (gen.sg.)’ d. manobhis mind (inst.pl.)’ o. vapusam wonder (gen.pl.)’ e. manasas ‘mind (gen.sg.)’ p. suhavis devout (nom.sg./stem)’ f. manasam ‘mind (gen.pl.)’ q. suhavisa devout (inst.sg.)’ g. manase mind (dat.sg.)’ r. suhavirbhis devout (inst.pl.)’ h. manobhyas mind (dat.pl.)’ s. suhavise devout (dat.sg.)’ i. vapus ‘wonder (nom.sg./stem)’ t. suhavirbhyas *devout (dat.pl.)’ j. vapusa ‘wonder (inst.sg.)’ u. suhavisas devout (gen.sg.)’ k. vapurbhis `wonder (inst.pl.)’ v. suhavisi devout (loc.sg.)’ i. What are the Sanskrit morphemes for the following? gen.sg. gen.pl. dat.sg. dat.pl. inst.sg. inst.pl. loc.sg.
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