LING 3005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Inflection, Grammatical Gender, Grammaticalization
28 Jan 2016
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There are words that have non-compositional meaning relation) Portmanteau morphemes: morphemes that have more than one meaning. Brother brothers/brethren (the second does not indicate a blood. These words need to be memorized to remember the difference. Cran is its own morpheme, but it"s not really. If your lexicon only stored words: cats, cogs, churches, there is no shared feature, they just share the same meaning (plural) Words don"t have to just be compositional in meaning. We can explain productivity: how likely you are to use a particular rule. Nominalize: -al takes a verb and turn it into a noun. Most words may have been heard and just memorized. If you assume you store some words it explains that some affixes can be used on some words and not on others, part of the rule you are aware of when learning the words. You get this productivity rule for free with the above explanation!
