Assignment 12: Write a Morphology Problem
Due Thursday December 11


To do this, you need to

-	Choose a language that you can get some information about.

-	Identify an interesting morphological phenomenon.

-	Decide what is interesting about it, what the pattern is, what
	there is to be learned from it about the language and about
	morphology in general.

-	Decide what your analysis (in terms of building a generative
	description of the phenomenon) would be.

-	Gather and present the necessary data, together with a sequence
	of well-chosen questions, designed to lead a student of morphology
	to an analysis (not necessarily the same as yours, but you need
	to have some analysis in mind, or you will not be able to make
	a problem).

-	You can get the data (and the analysis too, if you want to)
	from any source: the inside of your own head, a textbook, a
	grammar, an article, the internet (but be careful!), or a
	combination of the above.

Your finished problem, then, will consist of the data you decide to
present, together with a sequence of guiding questions.

Along with the problem, you should turn in a set of "Instructor Notes",
indicating what the purpose of each part is and what conclusions you
expect the student to draw.  A sample set of instructor notes is posted
on the class web site.  (It's a set of notes for the Tzotzil problems,
and it includes notes for two sets that I hid from you.)