The Birth and Death of Affixes and Other Morphological Processes in English Derivation

Bibliographic Data

ID5901199
AuthorsL Bauer (0000-0002-7632-0073, Victoria University of Wellington, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume8
Issue4
Pages244
Publication date2023-10-20
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguages (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/languages8040244
OpenAlexW4387809871
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited12

Linguistic change in morphology is usually discussed mainly in relation to change in inflectional morphology. In this paper, the focus is shifted to derivational morphology, where the issues are not entirely the same. In particular, the origins (or birth) of affixes and the loss (death) of affixes are central to the present discussion, with formal, semantic and pragmatic factors all having a role to play. The question is also raised as to whether it is, in principle, possible to tell that any affix is completely dead

Affix · Biology · Cognition · Focus (optics · Linguistics · Morphology (biology · Relation (database · Semantic relation · Computer Science · History · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Philosophy · Psychology

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