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Article: Analogy in morphology: modeling the choice of linking morphemes in Dutch(*).
- Article from:
- Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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Abstract
This study argues that a productive but not fully regular morphological phenomenon, the choice of linking morphemes in Dutch nominal compounds, is based on analogy. In Dutch, a linking -s- or -en- can appear between the constituents of a nominal compound. We present production experiments that reveal strong evidence that the choice of linking morphemes in novel compounds is analogically determined by the distribution of linking morphemes in what we call the "constituent families." A "constituent family," is the set of existing compounds that share the first (or second) constituent with the novel compound. A further experiment shows that in the case of ...
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