Psycholinguistic research on the processing of morphologically complex words has largely focused debates about how/if lexical stems are recognized, stored, and retrieved. Comparatively little investigated similar issues for functional affixes. In Word or Lexeme Based Morphology (Aronoff 1994), affixes not representational units par with roots. This view is in stark contrast to claims linguistic...

We measured orthographic differences between five Germanic languages. First, we tested the hypothesis that orthographic stem variation among languages does not correlate with orthographic variation in inflectional affixes. We found this hypothesis true when considering the aggregated stem and affix distances between the languages. We also correlated the stem and affix distances of the cognate p...

This paper presents yet another argument for the view that both the causative and inchoative verbs in the Japanese causative alternation are syntactically equally complex, derived independently from common bases. While morphological considerations alone suggest that such an approach must be taken to account for cases involving equipollent alternations, which have overt morphemes for both the ca...

This paper argues that parsing and productivity are causally related, the more an affix is prone to parsing in speech perception, the more productive it is likely to be. We support this claim by demonstrating a strona relationship between junctural phonotactics and affix productivity. Affixes which tend to create phonotactic junctures which facilite parsing also tend to be more productive. We s...

This paper proposes a syntax-semantics correspondence of locative expressions: This proposal is based on the syntactic hierarchy among three locative structures (PPs, VPs, and verbal affixes) and the semantic hierarchy among four locative arguments (Goal, Source, Symmetric Path, Stative Location). As for the syntactic hierarchy, the verbal affixes are closer to the head verb than the locative/p...

Despite substantial scholarship relating to word structure (Anderson, 2018), for English affixes the relationship between productivity, genre, and second language (L2) learning remains unclear. Analysis of existing literature reveals that deadjectival noun suffixes (i.e., nouns derived from adjectives such as appropriacy or goodness) have been underexamined. To address this gap, we examine two ...

This article is dedicated to examining the difficult cases of transmission indefinite meaning with pronouns and adverbs affixes -nibud, -libo, -to, koe- among Iranian audiences. The are a group words specific usage that express category indefiniteness. topic important because students learning Russian use these most problem. It not due grammatical features mentioned, but their dependence on sem...