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Apophony - Replacive morphemes & apophony: Encyclopedia II - Apophony - Replacive morphemes & apophony

Another analytical perspective on sound alternations treats the phenomena not as merely alternation but rather a "replacive" morpheme that replaces part of a word. In this analysis, the alternation between goose/geese may be thought of as goose being the basic form where -ee- is a replacive morpheme that is substituted for oo. goose → g-ee-se This usage of the term morpheme (which is actually describing a replacement process, and not a true morpheme), however, is m ...

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Apophony: Encyclopedia II - Apophony - Replacive morphemes & apophony

Apophony - Replacive morphemes & apophony

Another analytical perspective on sound alternations treats the phenomena not as merely alternation but rather a "replacive" morpheme that replaces part of a word. In this analysis, the alternation between goose/geese may be thought of as goose being the basic form where -ee- is a replacive morpheme that is substituted for oo.

goose → g-ee-se

This usage of the term morpheme (which is actually describing a replacement process, and not a true morpheme), however, is more in keeping with Item-and-Process models of morphology instead of Item-and-Arrangement models. (See Morphology (linguistics) for further discussion of morphological models.)

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