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Review Practice with allomorphy Productivity of derivation Constraints on derivational rules Summary
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Review Practice with allomorphy Productivity of derivation Constraints on derivational rules Summary
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Review Practice with allomorphy Productivity of derivation Constraints on derivational rules Summary
word: smallest free form found in language morpheme: smallest unit of language carrying information about meaning or function - free morphemes - bound morphemes Types of morphemes: - roots - afxes: prexes, sufxes, inxes - bases
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Review Practice with allomorphy Productivity of derivation Constraints on derivational rules Summary
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Review Practice with allomorphy Productivity of derivation Constraints on derivational rules Summary
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Review Practice with allomorphy Productivity of derivation Constraints on derivational rules Summary
Simona Herdan
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Review Practice with allomorphy Productivity of derivation Constraints on derivational rules Summary
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Review Practice with allomorphy Productivity of derivation Constraints on derivational rules Summary
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Review Practice with allomorphy Productivity of derivation Constraints on derivational rules Summary
Derivation
derivation = an afxational process that forms a word with a meaning and/or category different from that of its base derivation is rule-based particular afxes attach to particular categories: -ment attaches to verbs and produces nouns Example N V treat Af ment N season A Af al Af un A A kind
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V A modern Af ize
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Review Practice with allomorphy Productivity of derivation Constraints on derivational rules Summary
Af Af ate ion
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Derivation is non-ambiguous
the prex -un usually combines with As, not Ns Example unable, unkind, unhurt vs *unknowledge, *unhealth, *uninjury the correct structure is N A Af un A happy
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Review Practice with allomorphy Productivity of derivation Constraints on derivational rules Summary
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Review Practice with allomorphy Productivity of derivation Constraints on derivational rules Summary
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Review Practice with allomorphy Productivity of derivation Constraints on derivational rules Summary
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Review Practice with allomorphy Productivity of derivation Constraints on derivational rules Summary
Review Practice with allomorphy Productivity of derivation Constraints on derivational rules Summary
Combining afxes
Rule A CLASS 2 afx cannot precede a CLASS 1 afx! Example relat-ion-al (ROOT-1-1), divis-ive-ness (ROOT-1-2), *fear-less-ity (*ROOT-2-1), fear-less-ness (ROOT-2-2)
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Review Practice with allomorphy Productivity of derivation Constraints on derivational rules Summary
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Review Practice with allomorphy Productivity of derivation Constraints on derivational rules Summary
Simona Herdan
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Review Practice with allomorphy Productivity of derivation Constraints on derivational rules Summary
Summary
derivation is productive and rule-based derivation has constraints on bases and constraints on ordering of afxes 2 classes of afxes: - class 1 (combine with bound roots and affect stress) class 2 phonologically neutral
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