Handbook of Word-Formation (Studies in Natural Language and by Pavol Štekauer, Rochelle Lieber

By Pavol Štekauer, Rochelle Lieber

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Pirate, pirac+y b. meat, meat#y We have now seen that English phonology must have access to the morphological structure of a word, its lexical category, and the distinction between 12 Indeed, Booij (1977, 1995) argues that, at least for Dutch, which shows a similar bifurcation in its affixes, the effect that an affix has on syllabification is the main criterion on which to decide which class it falls into. Affixes that don’t interact in the basic syllabification of a word are considered to fall outside the phonological word.

Faced with this diversity of usage and assumptions, my advice to readers is predictable. Whenever they encounter the term ‘morpheme’, they should be wary. 13 It will be understandable if many readers conclude that the term ‘morpheme’ has hindered rather than helped our understanding of how morphology works. nz REFERENCES Anderson, Stephen R. 1992. A-Morphous Morphology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 13 A similar warning is offered by Mugdan (1985). BASIC TERMINOLOGY 23 Aronoff, Mark. 1976.

These do not seem to have any effect on the position or degree of stress. The non-cohering suffixes of English consist of virtually all inflectional suffixes,7 plus a subset of the derivational ones. I list some of the more common neutral derivational suffixes in (9), using the criterion of whether the suffix is taken into account when assigning stress. (9) -able, -er (agentive), -en, -ful, -hood, -ish, -ism, -ist, -ize, -less, -like, -ment, -ness, -ly, -wise, -y (adjective-forming) In (10) are some of the major stress-affecting suffixes.

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