| Lemma | zero |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Nida (1948) |
| Titolo | The identification of morphemes |
| Sinonimi | zero feature (inglese) |
| Rinvii | minus feature (inglese) overt formal difference (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | [...] I adopt Hockett's general principal that zero must not constitute the only allomorph of a morpheme [...] [...] overt formal differences have at least equal status with zero. If one wishes to describe the form-meaning relationship between 'sing' and 'song' as pertinent to the language (they certainly exibit partial phonetic-semantic resemblance), the structurally significant feature is the replacement of the vowel, not the addition of zero [derivative suffix]. |