Detail Blocking in Derivational Morphology   Oleh:  Basri, Hasan Jenis: Article from Proceeding Dalam koleksi: Conference on English Studies 5 (CONEST 5), Jakarta, 1-2 December 2008, page 107-111. Fulltext: P - Hasan Basri.pdf (64.67KB) Ketersediaan Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 406 CES 5 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1  Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel One of the most productive processes in English word formation is affixation, most notably derivation. Derivation is a morphological process where a derivational morpheme is affixed to a base. The result is a new word whose meaning and (commonly also) category are different from that of its base. A typical example in English is the agentive morpheme –er which is productively suffixed to a verb base to produce an agent, such as buyer, writer, killer, etc. Yet, however productive suffix –er is, there are a limited number of verb bases to which –er fails to attach; for example steal ? *stealer. This is because there has been a mono-morphemic word which bears exactly the same meaning as the putative *stealer; that is thief. In this way the existing thief is said to block the formation of *stealer (Aronoff 1976). This paper will explore various types of blocking that can be found in English derivational morphology. Thus, the original meaning of blocking as proposed by Aronoff, to account for the failure of the forms like *gloriousity (from glorious + ity) because of the pre-existence of glory, will be extended to cover forms involving suffixes such –en in words like white ? whiten or black ? blacken but fails in nonsense words like *bluen or *greenen. Similarly, it is perfectly true to derive a negative adjective from an adjective base, such as happy ? unhappy or clean ? unclean, but fails in sad ? *unsad or dirty ? *undirty. What constraints govern such phenomena? Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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