The stability of non-layered morpheme structure in Athabascan languages (original) (raw)

On morphemes and morphomes: exploring the distinction

Word Structure

The concept of the morphome (i.e. a morphological unit at odds with syntax and semantics) is notoriously uncomfortable for many formal models of morphology. Many discussions have thus centred on whether morphomes exist and whether individual cases are morphomic or not. When one gets rid of theoretically-driven assumptions, however, there is little evidence for a dichotomic taxonomization of the morphological minimal signs into morphemes and morphomes. Cross-linguistic variation suggests that morphological units can be arranged on a scale from the most simple to the most complex morphosyntactic distributions. The properties of ones vs the others are, however, not substantially different. I argue, therefore, that we should avoid this arbitrary taxonomy and explore instead the diversity of form-meaning mappings objectively by developing adequate and cross-linguistically applicable quantitative measures.

Towards a New Meta-Language for Athabaskan Linguistics: The Case of Morphological Phrasemes

Meaning-Text Theory 2009. Montreal: Observatoire de Linguistique Sens-Texte, 2009

This paper is concerned with the analysis and citation of morphological phrasemes in the Athabaskan language Dene Sųłiné. The concepts of derivation, morphoids, submorphs and morphological phraseme are reviewed, and a few principles are suggested for distinguishing morphological phrasemes from transparent derivation, followed by corollaries of how these principles can be applied to the presentation of interlinearized examples. This approach is contrasted with the current practice in Athabaskan and Americanist linguistics of not distinguishing between derivation and morphological phrasemes in the morphemic glosses.

THE THEORY OF AGGLUTINATION AND THE PROBLEMS OF STUDYING THE MORPHEMICS OF TURKIC LANGUAGES

MENTAL ENLIGHTENMENT SCIENTIFIC – METHODOLOGICAL JOURNAL, 2023

The theory of agglutination is actually one of the hypotheses of the origin of inflectional forms in the Indo-European languages, according to which the person-numbers and possessive forms of the verb are formed from independent pronouns, and they are attached to the stem, and the suffix (affix, suffix) grew from the primary aspect turning into morphemes. The complete formation of the comparative historical method in Western linguistics, which forms the basis of the theory of agglutination, dates back to the first quarter of the 19th century. During this period, the works of Franz Bopp (1791-1867), Rasmus Rask (1787-1832) and Jacob Grimm (1785-1863), leading representatives of comparative studies, were published, which laid the foundation for the further development of language science. the science. Although the theory of agglutination is a product of Indo-European linguistics, when it became clear that true agglutination is a characteristic of the languages belonging to the Altaic language family, including the Turkic languages, the theory of agglutination was mainly based on the morphology and morphemics of the Turkic languages and became the theoretical and methodological basis of research by morphemic.

An Analysis of Derivational and Inflectional Morphemes

2020

This study highlights the analysis of Pakistani students for Derivational and Inflectional Morphemes at intermediate level. Derivational and Inflectional Morphemes are the elements which explores the field of morphology for daily language users. Morphology is the study of "morphemes". Morphemes are the smallest units of language that have described into two categories as free and bound morphemes. The main issue that exists in this study is to analyze the derivational and inflectional morphemes used by Pakistani students. Through the perceptions and understanding of inflectional and derivational morphemes, this study can produce the vocabulary in which one word have multiple meanings. This research paper is associated with linguistics and field of socio linguistics. This paper is purely based on qualitative research approach. In this study, the researcher founds the prominent dimensions caused by the inflectional and derivational morphemes, when attached with other morphemes. If the derivational morpheme is attached with free morpheme, it will convey different meaning and a chance have that it will change even word class. While inflectional morpheme will play a grammatical role when will be attached with free morpheme.

Multifunctional Model of Morphemes in the Turkic Group Languages (On the Example of the Kazakh and Tatar Languages)

2014

This article describes a multifunctional computer model of the Turkic affixal morphemes. This model is a hierarchical system of characteristics of morphemes belonging to different language levels: phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic, and it requires a certain structure and unification in the description of characteristics of morphemes. It is a kind of “inventory” base of the language that can be used for different purposes; in particular, to perform automated comparative analysis of the properties of the Turkic languages, and to develop different linguoprocessors working with Turkic languages. Here, we describe the elements of the multifunctional computer model with examples on the Tatar and Kazakh languages.

Linguistic Perspectives on a Variable English Morpheme

2019

Who would have thought there was so much to say about verbal-s? In this engrossing book Laura Rupp and David Britain tie together an immense body of work from historical linguistics, formal linguistics, functional linguistics and sociolinguistics to propose a coherent and convincing account of the linguistic, social and discourse-pragmatic meanings conveyed by verbal-s. Their remarkable feat points to an entirely new way of thinking about English morphology. This book is essential reading!"

A Study of Derivational Morphemes in Lari and Tati as Two Iranian Endangered Languages: An Analytical-Contrastive Examination with Persian

The present study is aimed at studying the derivational bound morphemes in two endangered languages in Iran, namely Lari and Tati. The class of morphemes under investigation is bound morphemes belonging to a close class of suffixes within the language that changes the grammatical category of the root to which it is attached and represents various word categories like noun, adjective and adverb. By carrying out this study in a descriptive-contrastive analysis framework, it would be possible to identify the unique features of the derivational morphemes in Lari and Tati and compare them with those in Persian. Hence, the features of the derivational dialectal morphemes in Lari and Tati would be followed by their structural analyses the importance of which, inter alia, lies in the necessity of registering dialectal patterns. The gathered data, demonstrated via tables, illustrate a triple categorical division of (1) natural (or real) derivations1 along with the dialectal conjugation verb ...

PHONEMIC STRUCTURE OF MORPHEMES IN MODERN RUSSIAN AND UZBEK LANGUAGES

IAEME PUBLICATION, 2021

In this article is written about phonemic structure of morphemes in modern Russian and Uzbek languages The morphological system of the Uzbek language also differs from other Turkic languages in its distinctive features. Scholars have shown how important the role of language in human society is, describing it as the most important means of human communication. Typically, a phoneme is considered to be the smallest linguistic unit involved in the structure of a word, morpheme, and sentence. a phoneme is a collection of different signs.