Re: Small Derivational Idea
| From: | Andreas Johansson <andreasj@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 12:02 |
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On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Andreas Johansson <andreasj@...> wrote:
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> In my experience, it encompasses linguists, conlangers, and language
> teachers. But it seems to me the association of the term with those
> claims is far from complete even among professional linguistics - I've
> seen ones speak of empty morphemes that carry no meaning (eg. -t- in
> dramatic)
I should perhaps say I'm aware that it can also be analyzed
morphemically as dramat-ic with "dramat" as an allomorph of "drama".
I'm trying to recall in what book I saw the drama-t-ic analysis but
I'm drawing a blank.
--
Andreas Johansson
Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?