| Lemma | formal type |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Sapir (1921) |
| Titolo | Language |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | drift (inglese) morphological (inglese) partial reduplication (inglese) phonetic change (inglese) word (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | We [...] know of four distinct formal types of word: 'A' (Nootka 'hamot');' A + (0)' ('sing', 'bone'); 'A + (b)' ('singing'); '(A) + (b)' (Latin 'hortus'). It would be possible to demonstrate the existence of a vast number of formal types of
[...] partial duplication [...] [...] phonetic changes comprised under the term 'umlaut', [...] struck the German language at a time when the general drift to morphological simplification was not so strong but that the resulting formal types (e.g., 'Fuss: Füsse'; 'fallen' 'to fall': 'fällen' 'to fell' [...]) could keep themselves intact [...] |