(Summary) Morphology-Chapter 6
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Hussain K .Neama6 Morphology
Study Questions
6.1 When, she, into, the, the, me, if, I, a, or, an
6.2 (a) -less, -ly, -er, mis-, -s, pre-, -er, -en, -ing, un-, re-, construct, -ed
(b) all of them (-sist, -ceive, -duce, -peat)
(c) none of them (were, had, sat, waited)
6.3 (a) -en, (b) -en, -ing (c) -er, -es, -est (d) -ed, -’s, -s (e) –s’, -s
6.4 -a (OR -on → -a), -s, -en, Ø, -es, -i (OR -us → i)
6.5 This is an example of reduplication (i.e. repeating all or part of a form as a way of indicating, for
example, that a noun is plural).
6.6 abaloŋgo; táwa; taltálon kəǰi; bibili; kumain
Tasks
6A Suppletion
Suppletion is the term used to describe the relationship between two words that are connected through
inflectional morphology, but have quite different forms. The English verb be has very different forms for
“be + present” (am, is, are) and “be + past” (was, were). These are all suppletive forms. Also, whereas
most adjectives (fast, slow) have closely related (non-suppletive) forms in the comparative (faster,
slower), there are a few (bad, good) that have suppletive forms (worse, better).
Examples in the chapter: go-went; be – was/were
For more, read:
Kroeger, P. (2005) Analyzing Grammar (Chapter 15) Cambridge University Press
Veselinova, L. (2006) Suppletion in Verb Paradigms John Benjamins
6B Conditioning
1 stitches: phonological conditioning. The plural form used /-əz/ is because of the final sound of the
singular form stitch /ʧ/.
2 exclamation: morphological conditioning. It is the suffix –ation that influences the sound change from
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