By Morphemes

Hi Guys, By definition: prefix is a type of affix that precedes the morphemes to which it can attach. A suffix is an affix that succeeds the morphemes to which it can attach. So when you say 700 MiB, is "MiB" really a prefix or a suffix? It's amazing to see almost every popular article...

hello friends.i have to do a task homework..would you please help me? thank you consider what problems of analysis ,or recognition,or of relating them to other forms of same word a learner might have with them.for example: word: redemption morphemes:redeem+noun suffix -tion ...

This is interesting, IMO: Background on Grammaticalization (8) Grammaticalization makes use of the "observation that grammatical morphemes develop gradually out of lexical morphemes or combinations of lexical morphemes with lexical or grammatical morphemes." (Bybee, Perkins and Pagliuga 1994:...

Hela wrote:The sun shone bright.Hello HelaAs Prof. KoM told, "bright" in "The shone bright" is a true adverb and it is synonymous to "brightly". In the time of Old English (AD 600 - AD 900), it was a rule to form adverbs by adding either a suffix "e" or a suffix "lic" to corresponding...

Hello RoroFirst of all, please know that I am not a professional linguist. I learned the term "ergative verb" only a couple of years ago from a scholar on an English learners' forum for Japanese. So my knowledge is much more limited than yours. What I wrote in the previous message to the...

Hello Viognier First of all, please understand I am not a linguistic expert. So I have no intention to contest with you about this kind of professional subject. As you also know, there are many opinions about the concept of "tense" among experts. Some experts take the term "tenses" as...

Hi paco. I would be pleased to explain to you what I wrote. It is entirely based on Mel'čuk (+Bybee et all 1994)'s theory, though. I find it rather complicated, so can I ask you some question about your view first? You...

The number of English tenses depends on how one defines "tense". If one defines it as morphemes of verbs, English has only two tenses: past and present. paco

Thanks... I guess that's the way it should be. The problem with dis-illusion is that "disillusion" is a verb and not a noun. 'Illusion' is of course a noun, but there's no way a verb can be created by adding dis- to a noun... This is what has me confused - especially because it feels very wrong...

Hi, I study English at a Swedish university. I have some assignments to make, but they're difficult (for me, that is. You'll probably laugh). I stumpbled upon this board.. sorry for the intrusion. We're supposed to draw "trees" to the following words: unbearability disillusionment But I found...