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Derivational Morphology of Assamese Lexical Word Categories [PDF]
, 2020 Word formation by derivation is very productive in Assamese. A significant amount of words in Assamese owe their origin to derivation. The analysis in this paper takes into account the derivational processes related with lexical word categories, and ...
Madhumita Barbora +3 more
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On concatenative and nonconcatenative lexeme-formation patterns in English [PDF]
Linguistica Pragensia, 2015 The paper borrows the concept of (non)concatenation from morphology and applies it to wordformation patterns both within and outside the scope of derivational morphology, arguing at the same time for a broader, lexicological approach to lexeme ...
Aleš Klégr
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American Norwegian derivational morphology in contact [PDF]
, 2022 Heritage languages (HLs) reliably exhibit morphological patterns prone to change and restructuring. Yet, American Norwegian appears to be remarkably stable in terms of structure, although with some surface variability.
Natvig, David, van Baal, Yvonne
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Generative Mechanisms of Romanian Derivational Morphology [PDF]
Memoirs of the Scientific Sections of the Romanian Academy, 2011 The article studies the problem of a Romanian morphologic derivative generator development. The starting point is a lexicon that provides storage of derivatives in a lexicon, which contains not only the graphical representation of derivatives but also ...
Mircea Petic
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The Semantics of Derivational Morphology
, 2023 This volume comprises eight cutting-edge research articles on the meaning of complex words. The contributions apply a range of innovative methodological approaches to under-researched problems in derivational semantics. The book provides new answers to longstanding theoretical and empirical questions concerning the polysemy and rivalry of affixes, but ...
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Of Families and Occurrences. Derivation and Word Usage in Latin
, 2023 In this paper we present the results of an investigation on the relation between derivational morphology, represented in terms of derivational families from a word formation lexicon for Latin, and the number of textual occurrences of their members in a ...
Eleonora Litta, Marco Passarotti
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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
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ANALYZING ISTRUCTION AND LEARNING OF DERIVATIONAL MORHOLOGY IN THE SPANISH FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM [PDF]
, 2013 Morphological awareness can help learners of a second language (L2) infer and learn the meaning of unknown words. It is, however, unclear how morphological awareness evolves in adult English-speaking learners of instructed L2 Spanish and how this ...
Marcos Miguel, Nausica
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On the Morphology of Toponyms: What Greek Inflectional Paradigms Can Teach us
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 77-96, March 2025.Abstract The research is a contribution to the investigation of the grammatical status of toponyms from the point of view of inflectional paradigmatic morphology. By examining data from Standard Modern Greek, as well as select data from its historical development, the analysis reveals that the inflectional morphology of toponyms shows significant ...
Michail I. Marinis
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The Birth and Death of Affixes and Other Morphological Processes in English Derivation
Languages, 2023 Linguistic change in morphology is usually discussed mainly in relation to change in inflectional morphology. In this paper, the focus is shifted to derivational morphology, where the issues are not entirely the same. In particular, the origins (or birth)
Laurie Bauer
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