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| Morpheme Three Components |
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1)form (several or single)
2)identifiable meaning or function
3)pattern of arrangement (prefix, suffix,ect) |
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whatever form we are adding a morpheme too
-can be a single root
-already a complex word
-also called a lexical stem if adding grammatical (inflectional) affix
-ex:work-worked (work is root word) |
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have a common origin
-buds off from another meaning
ex: worker/teacher are polysemous with screwdriver(other inanimate instruments) |
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forms with same meaning but slightly different sound shapes and different predictable
-ex: sincere/sincerity, severe/severity, confuse/confusion |
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morphemes with the same form but different meanings
ex: eng. ER (comparative) fatt-er and bigg-er are coincidental homomorphs with ER (human agent) work-er and teach-er |
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| purely phonological(automatic) |
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not limited to any particular morphological environment
ex:cat-s, dog-s, fox-es |
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phonological but isolated to a specific morphological environment
ex: suffix en converts adjective endings in obstruents to verbs white-whiten
-zero suffix converts adjective in sonorants or vowels to verbs tan-tan |
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of stem before nominalizing (adj to noun) suffix-ity
ex: sincere-sincerity
profound-profundity
one exception: obese-obesity |
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| Inner Eurasian Vowel Harmony |
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root vowels are copied onto any suffix vowel
-suffix compliments roots
-Inner Asia-primary vowel harmony language |
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another type of vowel harmony producing allophonic sounds
-Turkish uses this |
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| Turkish palatal (front/back)harmony |
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root vowel conditions allomorphy in suffix vowels
-very common in North Asia |
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| root vowel conditions allomorphy in suffix vowels |
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| phonemic neutralization of some vowel contrasts in non-roots |
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caused by phonological rules having nothing to do with particular morphemes
-would apply in nonsense words |
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| morphophonological allomorphy |
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| phonological changes in morpheme shape that are limited to particular morpheme combinations |
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| morphological productivity |
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wide degree of morphological productivity- different based on which have been created in recent years.
ing is most productive, noun plural suffix -en is least productive |
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what we count to determine morphological productivity
ex: ese:mentalese (communication system based on X)
gate: watergate, email-gate (based on scandal |
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| occurs uniquely once-another name for cranberry morpheme |
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