LING 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Inflection, Affix, Reduplication
17 Nov 2015
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Inflection can involve processes other than affixation: internal change, suppletion, reduplication, tone placement. Plural of goose is geese: inside of word changes. To be got mixed into is" and are". Record vinyl record, record a tv show, Other derivational processes: derivation can also involve other morphological processes, conversion. When conversion applies to polysyllabic words, this can give rise to stress shift: clipping. A process that creates a new word by removing a real word or imagined affix from another word. Often based n a mis-analysis: e. g. peddler peddle(v) peddle+ er, e. g. Editor edit (v) edit+or: acronyms and initialisms. Acronyms: words created from some or all the initial letters in a phrase or title. Word coinage and eponyms: when words are created ,ore or less out of the blue, teflon from polytetrafluoroethylene, eponyms: words from names e. g.
