LING 3005 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Divine Divinity, Affix, Hapax Legomenon
22 Sep 2017
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Ize avoids stress clash (private, privitize but not corrupt, corruptize: morphological ex. Y diminutive must be applied to familiarized form (danny but not daniely: an affix may be very productive but not very prevalent because it is very restricted, even if very productive and shows up everywhere that meets restrictions. English fling used to have past tense flinged, but underwent analogical change to flung, so model i/a/u verbs such as sting/ stang/ stung: this creates analogical extensions which extend an existing pattern to a new lexeme. Key terms: neologism: when a new lexeme is attested, but had not previously been observed in that language, productive: morphological rules and patterns which can be applied to new bases and form new words (neologisms) Describe the major complications to inflectional classes and their effects on theory. Shared information is specific to higher nodes, and information that is specific to individual classes on lower nodes.
