| Lemma | productive form |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Nida (1948) |
| Titolo | The identification of morphemes |
| Sinonimi | open distribution of a form (inglese) |
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| Citazioni | When we say that the distribution of a form is open (at least in terms of certain types of environment), we say simply that the form is productive - that is, it occurs with a class of forms whose membership we cannot accurately delimit. This is a synchronic fact [...] [...] the participial suffixes /-n/ and /-d/ are neverless allomorph [...] The allomorph /-d/ is productive: its potential distribution is not arbitrarily fixed like that of /-n/. |