LING 3005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Lexeme, Semantic Change, Reduplication
9 Feb 2016
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Ing seems to be inflection or derivation, it is productive, but it changes class. Ly (turns an adjective into an adverb) modifies verb complimentary distribution. Parts of derivation can be summed up as irregular (semantic change, non- composition, stem allomorphy) Ing and ly are very productive (100%) all verbs can take ing, almost* all adjectives can take ly. In some dialects of english, -ly is obligatory (inflection) They are, ultimately, derivational because most importantly they change class* Noun: it can take a determiner, subject, or object, of" phrase, pluralize, take an adjective, take numbers. Distribution testing, had the distribution we expect of nouns, it is a noun. Official definition: a noun is a thing that goes where nouns go. Person, place or thing is a semantic definition. Syntax had its own little inflection head, but never derivation split morpheme hypothesis (main syntax theory)
