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non-concatenative vs. concatenative
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05/06/2016

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circumfix
Definition
affix around stem: sant-usanto
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infix
Definition
affix added to inside stem: sant-sumant
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zero affix
Definition
no added affix: sant-sant
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silmufix
Definition
changes a segment of a stem: sant-sint
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interfix
Definition
links two stems together in a compound: speed-o-meter
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duplifix
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incorporates a reduplicated portion of a stem: money-shmoney
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suprafix
Definition
changes a suprasegmental feature of a stem: PRO-duce, pro-DUCE
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tagalog
Definition
sound repetition withing a word for semantic or grammatical purpose: sant=santsant
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Ablaut
Definition
a change in a vowel that carries extra meaning
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Morpho Subtraction(disfixation)
Definition
removing a phonetic part of an existing morpheme to add new meaning (very rare)
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transfixation
Definition
found only in Afrosabiac, Hebrew, Egyptian: inserted into a word root
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concatenative morphology
Definition
can easily be separated by hyphens: trashcans-trash-can
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non-concatenative morphology
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cannot be separated by hyphens: tooth-teeth
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blends
Definition
smog, craisin
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Phonaestemes
Definition
sound symbolism: gl in glimmer
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Inflection
Definition
always added to base, important to grammer: in Werenickes area of brain
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Inflectional Affixes
Definition
never change the part of speech; the grammatical finishing touches on word forms spoken in phrases and sentences
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Derivational affixes
Definition
changes part of speech
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lexeme
Definition
word in the brain
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listeme
Definition
any element with a set meaning, including idioms, individual use of proper names
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nominalizer (NMLZ)
Definition
any affix that makes a noun out of a non-noun. -ing,-ness, -ence
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adjectivizer (ADJ)
Definition
affix that makes an adjective out of a non-adjective -al,-like,-esque
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adverbializer (ADV)
Definition
any affix that makes a adverb out of a non-adverb slow-slowly
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verbalizer (VERB)
Definition
makes a verb out of non-verb, -ize, -en, weapon-weaponize
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purely grammatical inflections
Definition
agreement, tense-things that don't really exist outside of languages
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referential (or internal) inflections
Definition
means something concrete in real world; derivational affixes
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Noun Plural
Definition
involved in subject agreement, form of pronouns (this/these)
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english diminutive
Definition
never interact with any grammatical rule-cloud-let derivational
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possessive clitic on noun phrases
Definition
homomorphous w the -S noun plural, sounds same in both singular and plural-student='s, student=s', student=POSS
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