LINA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Royal Ontario Museum, Suppletion, Reduplication
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The head/element of the compound is on the right: stress sound to recognize compound word and non-compound word: Compounds are two types: some compounds are endocentric, some are exocentric. Inflections: suffixation (as in the case of english. ) e. g. ed, s. Ablaut: change tense, e. g. sing- sang changing on vowels. Ablaut a vowel alternation that marks grammatical contrast: suppletion. Inregular pattern: no regular rules in the changes. Replaces a morpheme with an entirely different morpheme to indicated a grammatical contrast. The form is changed. e. g. (complete/total suppletion): good- better, bad- worse, (partial suppletion): think-thought, teach- thoughts: reduplication. (repeat). used to create new words or meanings. e. g. full reduplication: the entire words are reduplicated. Turkey: tfabuk: quickly, tfabuk tfabuk: very quickly, adds emphasis, add intensive. Partial reduplication. e. g. takbuh run" - tatakbuh will run". Zero derivation (conversion. : create new word without affixes attached. e. g. email n-verb. The category changes. ink verb-noun. dirty verb- adjective.
