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| transposition(conversion) |
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| changing the part of speech without changing the form |
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| non-isolating analytic language |
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| have lots of derivational affixes but few (or no) inflectional affixes (english has fewer than a dozen) |
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analytic languages that don't have many derivational affixes either-rely mainly on root compounding to make new lexical stems
ex: chinese, Vietnameze, and some languages of Africa |
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| morpheme that marks positive affection ex:dog-doggy |
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run-outrun, do-outdo
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quote-misquote
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| how word building features compare across languages |
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| dictionary words-names,set phrases, proverbs |
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| everything listed in our brains-all of lexemes and lexicon, poems, music |
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| any linguistic unit which occurs in isolation or which has a idiosyncratic or set meaning |
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| read-er someone who reads |
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| read-er book used to teach reading |
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| string of synthetic inflections-1 for each grammatical category and usually with only one form |
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| new words that have become widely accepted |
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haven't been invented yet, but would be if created
ex: anti-morphologist or vodka-ize |
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| moderate word form lexicon |
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| many but not all words are listed and few morphemes |
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| morphological but expresses syntax, grammatical categories words can express |
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| adds syntax related information without changing form class |
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| capitalized in morpheme glossing: PAST, COMP, ACC |
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| super categories of values, such as number, case, agreement, tense, person |
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| nouns, pronouns, adjectives |
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| different nouns that have different packages |
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| using words to talk about language |
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| how you express something |
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| subordinated to listeners desires |
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| happened in past but important for future |
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| "I had it but my dog ate it"-important for next past thing |
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| has a subject and object ex:the farmer milked the cow |
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| passive intransitive verb |
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| only has a subject "the cow was milked by the farmer" |
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| middle voice intransitive |
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| verb in transit, "I came" or "I slept" |
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| verb that has ing-can function as a noun |
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| verb+adjective at the same time |
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| only made from active transitive verbs=having been done |
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| negative comparison degree |
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| with more than one word instead of an affix |
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| lots of inflections (many with more than one function and more than one form) |
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| few inflections (English) word order fairly fixed and many grammatical words present |
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inflections because triggered by syntactic rule
ex:Russian verb government |
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| obligatory inflectional categories of english |
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| nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives |
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| number, gender, comparative/superlative, have logical exceptions and constraints, can be derivational |
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| traits of polysynthetic verbs |
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| discontinuous stem, holophrasis, incorporation |
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sometimes a derivational property but never an inflectional property
ex: great-great-grandmother |
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