Week 4 - Other Morphological Processes Thursday, September 27, 2018 2:24 PM Internal Change - A process that substitutes one non-morphemic segment for another. (typically involve - Ex sing sang, sink sank, foot feet. - These stuck around instead of the -s marker because of frequency of use. These are e change Suppletion - A process that replaces a morpheme with an entirely different morpheme in order to function or relation. (Always involves inflection) - Ex go -> went (past tense) - Typically results out of historical change. Reduplication - A process of copying whereby the form of a prefix or suffix reduplicates (copies) certa the base. - Ex in Turkish, cabuk = quickly, cabuk cabuk = very quickly - Partial reduplication = part of the base is reduplicated. Ex tagalog, takbo = run, tatakb Tone - A morpheme that consists of a tone. - Ex mono-bili: dá (present) dà (past) Cliticization - Clitic: clitics are forms that resemble words in behaviour, at least syntactically, yet are own. - Cliticization: when a clitic 'attaches' to another word. - Ex I'm leaving. Conversion - A process that changes the lexical category of a word without adding a morpheme. - Ex V -> N: (a long) run, (an important) call - Conversion may be evident from a shift in stress placement Clipping - A process that derives one word from another by dropping one or more syllables. - Ex condominium -> condo Blending - A process of derivation that combines non-morphemic parts of two or more distinct v
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- Ex bromance, telethon. - Clipping and blending can occur together: electronic mail -> email Acronyms and initialisms - Acronym: word that is derived by combining the initial letters of some or all the words in - Ex NATO - Initialisms: word derived in the same fashion, except the word is pronounced as a series - Ex UFO.