LIGN 101 - Great Analysis

# The secret to a great linguistic analysis

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### You've come a long way in this class

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### In the future, you'll all need to do linguistic analysis

- Perhaps as part of your teaching or research, if you decide to go the academic route

- Maybe in industry or defense, if that's your path

- Maybe for fun, on the weekends

- ... and during the week

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## You'll want to do *great* linguistic analysis

- So, I'm going to finally tell you the secret

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### Most linguistics students don't learn this until graduate school

- Many not until a post-doc

- Some, not until they're full professors

- Some poor souls never figure it out!

- **... but you'll know it today!**

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### We'll end the class like we've lived the class, staring at data!

- *To discover the secret to Great Linguistic Analysis, you'll need to figure out...*

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### What is the Russian morpheme marking first person (e.g. 'I do x') for these verbs?

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<table class="tg">
  <tr>
    <th class="tg-0pk">Russian</th>
    <th class="tg-0pk">English</th>
    <th class="tg-0pk">Russian</th>
    <th class="tg-0pk">English</th>
    <th class="tg-0pk">Russian</th>
    <th class="tg-0pk">English</th>
  </tr>
  </b>
  <tr>
    <th class="tg-0pky">djelat</th>
    <th class="tg-0pky">'to do'</th>
    <th class="tg-0pky">pit</th>
    <th class="tg-0pky">'to drink'</th>
    <th class="tg-0pky">staret</th>
    <th class="tg-0pky">'to grow old'</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <th class="tg-0pky">djelaju</th>
    <th class="tg-0pky">'I do'</th>
    <td class="tg-0pky">pju</td>
      <td class="tg-0pky">'I drink'</td>
    <th class="tg-0pky">stareju</th>
    <th class="tg-0pky">'I grow old'</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td class="tg-0pky">djelajet</td>
    <td class="tg-0pky">'(s)he does'</td>
    <td class="tg-0pky">pjet</td>
    <td class="tg-0pky">'(s)he drinks'</td>
    <td class="tg-0pky">starejet<br></td>
    <td class="tg-0pky">'(s)he grows old'</td>
  </tr>
  <!--
  <tr>
    <td class="tg-0pky">tʃitaju</td>
    <td class="tg-0pky">'I read'</td>
    <td class="tg-0pky">risuju</td>
    <td class="tg-0pky">'I draw'</td>
  
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td class="tg-0pky">tʃitajet</td>
    <td class="tg-0pky">'(s)he reads'</td>
    <td class="tg-0pky">risujet</td>
    <td class="tg-0pky">'(s)he draws'</td>

</tr>-->
  </table>

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## That's the secret, right there

- That morpheme

- As you go forward in your linguistic career, remember that...

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# The secret to great linguistic analysis was /ju/ all along!

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<huge>Thank you!</huge>