LING 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Clitic, Reduplication, Suppletion

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 100
• Professor: Charlotte Reinholtz

Document Summary

A process that substitutes one non-morphemic segment for another. (typically involves inflection). A process that replaces a morpheme with an entirely different morpheme in order to indicate a grammatical function or relation. A process of copying whereby the form of a prefix or suffix reduplicates (copies) certain phonological features of the base: full reduplication: the entire base is reduplicated. Partial reduplication: part of the base is reduplicated. A morpheme that consists of a tone. A term employed for forms that resemble words in behaviour, at least syntactically, yet are unable to stand on their own. English: a cat, the kitte(cid:374), i(cid:859)m lea(cid:448)i(cid:374)g, they(cid:859)re laughing. French: jean t(cid:859)ai(cid:373)e (cid:858)joh(cid:374) you-like(cid:859) -john likes you, suzanne les (cid:448)oit (cid:858)suza(cid:374)(cid:374)e the(cid:373)-see- suzanne sees them. A process that changes the lexical category of a word without adding a morpheme. Verb noun (a long) run (a hot) drink (a pleasant) drive (a brief) report (an important) call.