LING 3005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Affix
24 Feb 2016
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Productivity when you"re very likely to use it. Productivity is used more in morphology than any other branch/field. What you could possibly do and what you can do competence (what you know) and performance (what you do) Centre embedding problem start one sentence, put it on hold, then finish another. Takes in to account how language changes over time. You used to do this thing, but you don"t do it anymore, but you still remember how to do it. We don"t do that anymore, but we still do sometimes (dive dove) We used to past tense words with o- En doesn"t appear very often, but when can, it will. Productivity is treated as a long list of restrictions. Restrictions don"t help much when random affixes pop up more & more recently. Language and the way we use it are not always the same. Knowing the rules of your language and exploiting them creatively.
