LING 2005 Study Guide - Final Guide: Polysynthetic Language, Synthetic Language, Isolating Language
18 Dec 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Suppletion: completely different root indicates change: ex. Repduplication: partially of fully duplicate as intensifier, or to inflect (mark tense, aspect, etc. ) Ablaut/ apophony: changes marked through changes in internal structure, commonly vowels: ex. sing, sang, sung; feed, fed, food. Assimilation: preceding or following sounds become more similar (place, manner, nasal, round: ex. rounding rule and fronting rules in english. Affixation: indicate change through attaching an affix: ex. pre-disposition, friend-s. Insertion: addition of one or more sounds in a word or phrase: ex. aspiration rule. Deletion/ elision: the omission of one of more sounds in a word or phrase: ex. Zero derivation: assigns existing word to a different word class: ex. noun facebook to verb facebook. Analytic language: few inflections, grammatical functions and relationships expressed largely through separate words (auxiliary words, prepositions) and through fixed word- order patters: ex. The dog chased a cat through the park. vs. The cat chased a dog through the park.
