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Linguistics- Morphology (inflectional)
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- 1Inflectional Morphology // Number Important Allomorphs (=IA) {plural}regular: mothers
<-en>: children, oxen
i-mutation: feet
zero: sheep
Latin/Greek forms: hypotheses - 2Inflectional Morphology // Case IA {possessive}the boy's
? - 3Inflectional Morphology // Person IA {3 Sg Pr}regular he thinks
zero ? he don't
suppletion he is - 4Inflectional Morphology // Tense IA {(simple) past}regular I loved
gradation I sang
zero I bet
suppletion I went - 5Inflection Morphology // Tense/Aspect/ Voice IA {past participle}{passive}{perfect}regular I have loved
<-en> risen
gradation sung
zero bet - 6Inflectional Morphology // Aspect IA {present participle}regular I am singing
- 7{comparative} and {superlative} IAregular finer, finest
suppletion better, best - 8Productivityfrequency of occurence
regular forms are highly productive because they occur most frequently - 9Allomorphs-different realizations of a morpheme
-regular allomorphs: phonologically conditioned allomorphs
- irregular allomorphs: morphologically/grammatically conditioned allomorphs
- example: {past} --> , , - 10Phonologically conditioned allomorphs (regular)- occur in complementary distribution
- choice of allomoprh determined by last sound of stem
- predictable, productive
{plural}{3 Sg. Pr} {possessive} <-es>
--after v sounds: /-z/
--after vl. sounds /-s/
after sibilants /-iz/
Same with past participle (d, t, id) - 11Morphologically/grammatically conditioned allomorphs (irregular)- occur in free variation
- unpredictable, non-productive
{plural} <-e> (Ox, oxen; child --> children)
Latin/Greek forms focus --> foci
i-mutation, zero,
{past} gradation, suppletion - 12—
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- Linguistics (Introduction to English Linguistics) Flashcards on Linguistics- Morphology (inflectional), created by Pauli Ketchum on 11/07/2017.
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- Pauli Ketchum · Jul 2017
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