Ogden Acheson
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Notice two uses of the prefix blue fitted hat un- . UN- added to a verb gives another verb.A / / A / / un use able This analysis is supported by the general behavior of these affixes. As we saw, there is a prefix un- that attaches to adjectives to make adjectives with a negative meaning ( unhurt , untrue , etc.). And there is a suffix -able that attaches to verbs and forms adjectives ( believable , fixable , readable ). This gives us the analysis pictured above. There is no way to combine a prefix un- directly with the verb use , so the other logically possible structure won't work.
The most common type is called agreement or concord , which is where an adjective takes endings which indicate information about the noun they modify, like whether it is singular or plural, what gender it blue jays fitted hat is or what case it is in. Consider, e.g., the difference in French between vin rouge 'red wine' and vins rouge s 'red wines'. General properties of inflectional morphemes:grace (to) grace ? ? graceful gracefulness ? gracefully ? ungraceful ungracefulness ungracefully graceless gracelessness ?? gracelessly ?? ? brown fitted hat gracious graciousness ? ? graciously ?.
a syntactic Noun Phrase has a noun as its head, which has combined with things like adjectives and determiners. Notice that the properties of the phrase are determined by the property of the head, so a noun phrase is noun-like in its distribution, and furthermore if the head noun is singular, the NP will be singular. This turns out to be the property of all sorts of heads, not just syntactic ones. So compound and derived words, for example, although treated by the syntax as though they were an unanalyzable unit. bucket hat with string
as in a fly to shallow center field . Now the verb fly does indeed have an irregular past tense associated with it, but the noun has no past tense at all. When we make it into a verb we have to start from scratch, and all that's available is the regular past tense in -ed . The problem with walkmen is slightly different. It turns out that walkman is just a made up word with no compositional meaning. It is not a kind of man at all, but a portable stereo, so man cannot be the head. In fact, it has no head.
and in a sense it is not even really a compound, but a word that must be memorized as a unit with a meaning that is completely unpredictable from its parts and is not analyzed as being a head plus something added on. The result is the same: whatever is involved in walkman , the head is not man , and thus no irregular inflectional information can be associated with it, and the regular inflection wins out.President Bush, if these quotes are bucket hats near me accurate, quite sensibly decided that -ian should be the default ending, after deletion of a final vowel if present.
This follows the common model of Brazil :: Brazilians and Canada::Canadians , and gives Bush's East Timor::East Timorians , Greece::Grecians and Kosovo::Kosovians , instead of the correct (but unpredictable) forms East Timorese , Greeks and Kosovars . And why not? The President's method is more logical than the way the English language handles it. Despite these derivational anfractuosities, English morphology is simple and regular compared to the morphological systems of many  other languages. One question we need to ask ourselves is. |
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