Chapter 3 Flashcards
Back- formation
the formation of a shorter, simpler word from a longer word that is perceived as
morphologically complex
Coalescence
a diachronic change whereby two formerly free syntactic elements turn into a
single word form (compound)
Combinatory potential (subcategorization frame)
the information in a lexical entry about the
surrounding elements with which a word or morpheme can/must combine
Concatenative/nonconcatenative
an operation that consists of stringing morphemes together,
ie. affixation or compounding (as opposed to non-concatenative operations such as base
modification)
Cross-formation
the formation of a complex word from a base that is itself complex, by
removing part of the base
Duplifix
an element attached to the base that consists of both copied and fixed segments
Metathesis
a type of base modification that involves switching the order of two contiguous
sounds or groups of sounds
Morpheme-based model
a collective term for approaches to morphological analysis in which
morphological rules are thought of as combining morphemes in much the same way as syntactic
rules combine words
Morphological correspondence
a convention used to represent the association between morphologically related sets of words; a morphological rule on the word-based model
Productive/unproductive
a morphological pattern or rule is productive if it can be applied to new bases to
create new words
Selectional Restriction
conditions that define the domain of a rule, ex. some affixed ‘select’ only
bases that have a particular phonological shape, semantic meaning, etc.
Word-based model
a collective term for approaches to morphological analysis in which the
fundamental significance of the word is emphasized and the relationship between complex
words is captured by formulation word schemas that represent common features
Word class
A category of words (ex noun, verb, etc)
Word schemas
a representation of a set of morphologically related words
