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  • ...rphemic words are decomposed into a root and a affix if the language has a productive affix with the same phonological form as a part of the word that underwent ...ical structure: ('''''abcdef''''')<sub>stem</sub>; the language also has a productive affix with the form (''ef'').
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  • ...n the creation of new words, one regards this process as being productive. Productive word formation is opposed to unproductive word formation. ...native (''sterileness'' next to ''sterility''). We say that -''ness'' is a productive suffix. We can contrast this with the suffix -''th'' which performs the sam
    2 KB (240 words) - 12:54, 20 February 2009
  • ...appen-to-me complaint''. Compounds having the structure [XP + N] are fully productive in Dutch: ''oudemannenhuis'' 'old men's home', ''onderwatergedeelte'' 'subm
    1 KB (143 words) - 19:49, 17 February 2009
  • ...milar, the difference being that the former is unproductive and the latter productive. Both can be added to [[adjective]]s ending in ''-ous'' (''curious'': ''cur
    1 KB (167 words) - 15:05, 23 March 2008
  • ...hich, despite their being established, still form part of a synchronically productive series, differing only from potential words in that, by being used, they ha
    1 KB (157 words) - 14:57, 20 May 2013
  • ...n, Adjective, or Verb) can be combined to form a compound, though the most productive type, as far as English is concerned, is the Noun+Noun compound. Compounds,
    2 KB (315 words) - 17:49, 12 February 2009
  • ...ly predicted that -''ness'' cannot affect the stress already assigned to ''productive''. Allen (1978) has replaced Siegel's Level Ordering Hypothesis by the more
    2 KB (220 words) - 16:12, 8 July 2009
  • ...arent combination of the verb ''cause'' or the noun ''causation'' with the productive ''-(at)ive'' adjectivizing suffix.
    2 KB (345 words) - 15:54, 10 January 2008
  • ...lar languages is a genealogical unit or a linguistic area. Another case of productive agnosticism is the perennial question whether a set of highly similar speec
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  • ...he German plural-[[ablaut]] (see e.g. Lass 1990: 98f). The Old High German productive system of [[vowel harmony]] changed the underlying back vowels of noun-stem
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  • ...regularly derived words which are semantically transparent and formed with productive affixes, although on the surface they do not appear to have been derived fr
    2 KB (265 words) - 08:03, 30 August 2014
  • ...esting]] also shows that both regular and irregular past tense forms are [[productive]]. (Albright and Hayes, 2003)
    2 KB (249 words) - 18:44, 28 June 2014
  • .... If these figures are representative of a typical speaker's receptive and productive experience with the words in question, it seems reasonable to assume that h
    2 KB (354 words) - 20:28, 31 October 2017
  • ...compound can occur independently on their own and that they do not form a productive pattern. Affixes have a predictable function and can typically attach to a
    2 KB (320 words) - 00:57, 13 January 2014
  • Through the positing of productive processes in the lexicon and the separation of structure and function, LFG
    4 KB (631 words) - 16:43, 9 April 2008
  • productive: * the most productive: <sj->, e.g. ''sjö'' ('lake')
    36 KB (4,969 words) - 13:01, 2 March 2018
  • 1993b. Lexical and productive causatives in Japanese: an examination of the theory of paradigmatic struct
    18 KB (2,647 words) - 12:19, 11 July 2021
  • ...s sometimes even possible to use both the archaic and the regular and more productive ''-bi'' plural for a word.<ref>[http://www.auditorium.ru/books/2270/gl26.pd Another highly productive way of forming verbs is the combination of a word (often a loan from Arabic
    50 KB (8,020 words) - 17:31, 2 March 2018
  • Hadza has at least 50 productive syllable onsets and several other marginal consonants.
    26 KB (3,968 words) - 08:14, 5 January 2021