LINA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Word Formation, Reduplication, Abbreviation
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She is eat ing the doughnut. third person singular present she wait s at home. past tense progressive past participle mary has eat en the doughnuts. plural possessive comparative disa has short er hair than karin superlative disa has the short est hair. Umlaut phonologically conditioned alternation from a previous stage of language history: nouns only (goose, geese, suppletion replaces morpheme with entirely different morpheme to indicate grammatical contrast (be, past tense went", reduplication repetition. Inflection: another type of word structure creation process, modification of a word"s form to indicate grammatical information of various sorts, only eight inflectional affixes in english, other phenomena, conversion (zero derivation) type of word formation where no affixes added (ink, v derived from n)
