Week 9 - Recent Evolution Part 2

Question 1

Types of suffixes

Answer 1

Strong suffixes= affect the position of stress
Neutral suffixes = do not affect the position of stress

Question 2

Strong suffixes

Answer 2

Final = ee, ette, ese, aire, self/selves, etc
Penultimate = ic(s) C2 + adjectival suffix etc
Antepenultimate = ion, ate, ial, ious, ity/ety, ify/efy etc

Question 3

Neutral suffixes

Answer 3

Include all the grammatical suffixes (ed, ing, s, est, er)
ful, er, less, ly, ness, ism, able, ment

Question 4

Neutral suffixes which evolve towards being strong suffixes

Answer 4

Ly, ory, able, ess

Question 5

Ly

Answer 5

Shift to the antepenultimate in words in arily such as necessarily

Question 6

Ory

Answer 6

In words derived from disyllabic verbs in ate tends to becomen neutral
Also spread to non derived words
Also longer words with shift to antepenultimate stress behaviour of strong suffix
In words likeAtory

Question 7

Able

Answer 7

Shift to the syllable preceding the suffix in words in ifiable and other cases in Hich the base has a long vowel iziable
To the fai syllable

Question 8

Ess

Answer 8

Before neutral Shift to the final syllable