LIN 1310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Reduplication, Inflection, Infix
20 Oct 2018
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The word unlockable is ambiguous: it has more than one interpretation. The door was unlockable: i could not lock it. The door was unlockable: i could unlock it. Ambiguity: when a word has more than one structure. Adjectives can have inflected forms expressing comparison (fast-er, fastest) and in some languages agree with the noun in gender and number. The white houses" casas house-fem. pl brancas white-fem. pl (portuguese) Insert -in-after the first sound to form past tense. Copy first consonant and vowel of initial syllable and attach as prefix to form future tense. The form to which inflectional affixes attach is called the stem. Inflection never changes the stem"s category (creates a new word form). Regular inflection is rule-based (predictable) no need to be stored. jump jump-ed. Irregular inflection is unpredictable it must be stored. Partial suppletion: (some) phonological similarity between the forms. Woman women total suppletion: no phonological similarity.
