MOR_021 - Linguistic Micro-Lectures: Morphs and Morphemes
How do we get from morphs to morphemes? Within less than two minutes, Prof. Handke explains the main principles of morphological analysis and defines terms such as morph, allomorph and morpheme.
(Optional Spanish subtitles by Andrea Yaques, Lima, Peru)
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Hi. I have one question on the subject of morphemes that has always bugged me. Is the suffix -ren as in child-ren or breth-ren allomorphic to -s? As far as I understand the term, their abstract similarity as in "denotes plural" should make it so, shouldn't it? Could you please shed some light?
@oer-vlc
10 жыл бұрын
Like in oxen, the plural morph is {-/ən/}, /r/ is a linking phoneme. In oxen, the linking phoneme is not required.
@kristoffkiefer3791
10 жыл бұрын
The Virtual Linguistics Campus Thank you for the reply but I'm afraid my question remains, albeit altered: is "-en" an allomorph to the various -s discussed in the video? In other words does the general meaning of: "makes a word plural" suffice for -s and -en to be allomorphic or would allomorphs have to be more similar than that?