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Morphology and Alternation
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(9) Kharia (Munda, India)
[bhore] ‘be full’ [bhobre] ‘fill’
[Íoko] ‘sit’ [Íobko] ‘seatV’
[remag] ‘call’ [rebmag] ‘make someone call’
[tÉSuwe] ‘leak’ [tÉSubwe] ‘cause to leak’
(14) Some words that illustrate the interaction of phonology and morphology
fall [fO…] falling [fOlIN]
call [kÓO…] caller [kÓOl„]
lead [lid] mislead [mIsl•id]
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(15) Definitions
• A morpheme alternates if it takes on different forms in different environments.
• Allomorph = one of the different forms of a morpheme
• A phoneme alternates if it is the “changing part” of an alternating morpheme.
/bIl/N ‘name’
/lid/V ‘go before’
/kçl/V ‘...’
/Iz/V,Aux ‘copula’
etc.
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III. Inflectional morphology: creates inflected forms of the words (example:
[ddZ¡mp][Verb, +3rd person, -plural, +present] → [[ddZ¡mp]z])