LING 3005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Morpheme, Grammaticalization, Voicelessness
27 Jan 2016
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If we don"t have these words how do we get the complex morphemes without a stem? illusive. If you have one, you can make the other without the. Turn word inside out ie, melt emtl. Cat cats, you can easily" alter that to cat smuck cat cats. Rules are very powerful, there is no limit/restriction to what they can so with words, although the output doesn"t exist in language. You have to put restrictions, but you can"t. Rules state that these should occur as often as each other, but that is not reality. Much of these words we have now were borrowed from other languages. Weakening meaning to alter its syntactical structure is called. Willan (old english) becomes will" an auxiliary verb. Changing a full on word to an affix used to be syntactic, it is now morphological/concatenative. In old english, -es was actually a plural marker on the singular: leaf-es.
