This paper investigates how morphological relationships between inflected word forms are represented in the mental lexicon focusing on paradigmatic relations between regularly inflected word forms and relationships between different stem forms of the same lexeme. We present results from a series of psycholinguistic experiments investigating German adjectives (which are inflected for case, numbe...

The induction program we have crafted relies primarily on the linguistic notion of productivity to find affixes in unmarked text and without the aid of prior grammatical knowledge. In doing so, the algorithm unfolds in two stages. It first finds seed affixes, to include infixes and circumfixes, by assaying the character of all possible internal partitions of all words in a small corpus no large...

Morphology induction is a subproblem of important tasks like automatic learning of machine-readable dictionaries and grammar induction. Previous morphology induction approaches have relied solely on statistics of hypothesized stems and affixes to choose which affixes to consider legitimate. Relying on stemand-affix statistics rather than semantic knowledge leads to a number of problems, such as...

sarhaddi balochi dialect, a language variety of western (rakhshani) balochi, employs derivation through affixation as one of its word formation processes. the purpose of this article is to present a synchronic description of the way(s) different derivational affixes function in making complex words in sarhaddi balochi as spoken in granchin[1] district located about 35kms to the southeast of kha...

This paper describes a systematic investigation of the extent to which the part of speech of words can be identified from their prefixes and suffixes. The results indicate that it is possible to determine, with 95 per cent accuracy, the inclusive part of speech of an affixed word from a consideration of its prefixes, suffixes, and length. By "inclusive" parts of speech we mean a string that wil...

In a recent paper by H. L. Resnikoff and J. L. Dolby, "The Nature of Affixing in Written English," an algorithm for the structural definition of affixes was developed and applied to data consisting of all the words of the form CVCVC in the Shorter Oxford Dictionary. Fourteen strong prefixes and twelve strong suffixes and seven weak prefixes and forty weak suffixes were defined, but it was noted...