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Lexical Study of Allomorphs and Conditions Surrounding Use

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Allomorphy is the group of suffixes and prefixes and other affixes to a word that change the meaning or application of the root word or root stem. In other words, an allomorph accomplishes a transformation from one word to another. The new word will have a different semantic use and quite possibly a different meaning, and often, both... Lexicon.... 9 Harvard style references. jvLexAlo.rtf

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root word or root stem. In other words, an allomorph accomplishes a transformation from one word to another. The new word will have a different semantic use and quite possibly a different meaning, and often, both. Even in the common transformation from singular to plural, for example, the suffix -s pluralizes the root word in regular form (the common English lexical form) to make the transition. Less common is the suffix -ren which is used to transform "child" to the plural, an irregular lexical form applying only to the single word "child."1 The suffix -ly most often transform the meaning of the base word into a word that means "to make X," and can change the meaning of the morpheme entirely.2 An often expressed example utilizes the word hope. Hope is a noun that can mean optimism, but is also related to expectancy.3 Adding the suffix -ful turns hope into hopeful, an adjective meaning optimistic, but in the sense of showing hope (or wishing) for something to occur. Hopefully, another derivation of the word hope, is an adverb meaning to speak (or think) in a hopeful manner, in other words "to make hopeful." In another example of how allomorphs modify the meaning of words, the word person is a noun, meaning a human being or the body of a human being, etc. However, when the allomorphic suffices -al and -ly are added, the word personally is an adverb meaning to indicate a personal attribute or a means of directing (speech or attention to) another person. "Personally" is often also used as slang by an individual ...

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