A Case Study of -some and -able Derivatives in the

Smith, Chris

doi:10.4000/lexis.4793

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“…11-12); yet another definition holds that "words that express closely related meanings or grammatical constructions that have closely related functions in discourse are in competition with one another" (Goldberg 2019, p. 142). Competition between morphological constructions has been a topic of considerable debate in recent years (e.g., Štekauer 2017;Fernández-Domínguez 2017;Mattiello 2018;Fernández-Alcaina and Čermák 2018;Smith 2020;Rodríguez-Puente et al 2022).…”

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The History of -eer in English: Suffix Competition or Symbiosis?

Dukic,

Palmer

2024

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Ecological models of competition have provided great explanatory power regarding synonymy in derivational morphology. Competition models of this type have certainly shown their utility, as they have demonstrated, among other things, the relevance of frequency measures, productivity, compositionality and analyzability when comparing the development of morphological constructions. There has been less consideration of alternative models that could be used to describe the historical co-development of suffixes that produce words with sometimes similar forms or meanings but are not inevitably or solely in competition. The symbiotic model proposed in this article may help answer larger questions in linguistics, such as how best to analyze certain multilingual morphological phenomena, including the emergence of semantically similar forms within the same language. The present study demonstrates the importance of a diachronic approach in situations of near-synonymy, as an understanding of semantic similarity necessitates a review of the available historical record. In particular, our study focuses on the case of the suffix -eer (e.g., marketeer) in English, analyzing its origins, semantics, compositionality, and historical development, including its symbiotic relationship to the similar suffix -er (e.g., marketer).

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The History of -eer in English: Suffix Competition or Symbiosis?

Dukic,

Palmer

2024

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“…Particular English language words may lexically have more than one class. Furthermore, the English language suffix -some, is studied in terms of formation rule, meaning, productivity, and orthographic properties (Smith, 2020). The suffix is less used, and its rule for derivative word formation is affixation.…”

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The Correlation between Student’s Perception and Comprehension Achievement of the English Language Derivational Morphology

Bunau

2023

Lingua Cultura

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The research investigated the correlation between the perception and achievement of the students of English language derivational morphology comprehension. The perception was what was claimed, and the achievement was what was gained. There were primary and secondary data in the research. The primary data were collected by survey, and the secondary data were taken from the mid-test score record documented in the Academic Information System. The survey was implemented by distributing 18 questionnaire statements to 62 respondent students enrolling in English Morphology class. The non-parametric data resulted from the Likert Scale of 1 to 4 options. The perception was interpreted using the index percentage equation, and the interval of percentage was 25. Moreover, the achievement was calculated using the mean score equation. The Pearson Product Moment formula was applied to compute the correlation between perception and achievement. It is revealed that the students’ perception index on the English language derivational morphology is 52,53%, falling into the criteria of 50,01%-75,00% with the category of ‘I get it’. Furthermore, the mean score of student achievement is 76,45 and is categorized as ‘good’, placing in the range of 70,00-79,99. The research concludes that the null hypothesis is accepted, and the perception does not correlate linearly with the achievement of the comprehension of the English language derivational morphology. The correlation coefficient is -0,04365, and the category of the correlation is negligible. Despite the correlation and its category, this research infers that the perception is understandable, and comprehension is achievable.

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How Is Stickage Different from Sticking? A Study of the Semantic Behaviour of V-age and V-ing Nominalisations (on Monomorphemic Bases)

Smith

2024

Nouns and the Morphosyntax / Semantics Interface

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A Case Study of -some and -able Derivatives in the

Cited by 4 publications

References 18 publications

The History of -eer in English: Suffix Competition or Symbiosis?

The History of -eer in English: Suffix Competition or Symbiosis?

The Correlation between Student’s Perception and Comprehension Achievement of the English Language Derivational Morphology

How Is Stickage Different from Sticking? A Study of the Semantic Behaviour of V-age and V-ing Nominalisations (on Monomorphemic Bases)

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