LIN 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Inflection, Nonconcatenative Morphology, Suppletion
2 Mar 2020
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Suppletion: idiosyncratic forms of otherwise regular inflection. Regular forms: dog > dogs /-z/, snack > snacks /-s/, rose > Suppletive forms: child > children, sheep > sheep, locus > roses /-ez/ loci, tooth > teeth. Many morphological processes we observe in sign are simultaneous rather than sequential. Some spoken languages have this too, like templatic morphology in. Noun-verb pairs exemplify templatic derivational morphology in sign. For asl: short repeated movement in nouns, long movement in verbs (repeated or not) Another example of templatic morphology: characteristic adjective formation via reduplication. Characteristic adjective formation in asl also illustrates allomorphy in sign. Different surface forms realizing the same underlying syntactic object. Two-handed symmetric base > non-alternating two-handed movement. Allomorphy can be phonologically or morphologically conditioned. Some are obligatory components of signs (can be non-morphemic and just phonological; some are morphemic) Some seem to only have prosodic functions (e. g. , mark prosodic unit boundaries)
