Derivation

Review Practice with allomorphy Productivity of derivation Constraints on derivational rules Summary

Principles of Linguistics
Morphology - Derivation

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Review Practice with allomorphy Productivity of derivation Constraints on derivational rules SummaryReview: words and morphemes

word: smallest free form found in language morpheme: smallest unit of language carrying information about meaning or function - free morphemes - bound morphemesTypes of morphemes: - roots - affixes: prefixes, suffixes, infixes - bases

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Plural allomorphy in English

[s] cats roof caps racks

[z] beds eves cabs kegs mamas halos

[@z] judges watches busesbuzzes bushes rouges

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Derivation
derivation = an affixational process that forms a word with a meaning and/or category different from that of its base derivation is rule-based particular affixes...