Thursday, October 11, 2007
Morphemic Amputee
Daniel Fertig asked, "So where the normative form is a privative adjective, what's the linguistic term for when it loses its prefix!?!" Eric Thomson suggests "morphemic amputee," and adds, "Decoupling bound root morphemes from their affixes is a bit like nuclear fission, not to be undertaken without reck as it can cause a good deal of ruth."
Newer› ‹Older
