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Affixes
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2018 6:25 pm
by bbbosborne
i remember seeing something about this from the old board:
are there tendencies for different kinds of affixes (specifically verb affixes) to be closer to the root than other affixes?
Re: Affixes
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2018 7:54 pm
by Vardelm
That happened to be an answer in response to a question I asked. Fortunately, I copied it since it was in Quickies.
Salmoneous wrote:some types of inflection tend to be closer to the root than others.
The order is: valency > voice > aspect > tense > mood > agreement (number > person (subject > object) > gender). However, only aspect > tense and aspect > mood are absolutely (or effectively) universal, and some variation is found with the other items.
Re: Affixes
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2018 11:24 pm
by bbbosborne
thank you! i'm glad someone kept a copy.
Re: Affixes
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2018 3:01 am
by akam chinjir
Chapter Two of Joan Bybee's Morphology: A Study of the Relation Between Meaning and Form has a lot on this, if you want some detail and can get your hands on it.
Re: Affixes
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2018 4:19 am
by Curlyjimsam
Try Cinque (1999) "Adverbs and Functional Heads", esp. sections 3.1, 3.2. It's on Google Books; there's also a 1997 "working paper" version you can download online somewhere, or at least there used to be.