<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Christian et al,<br></div><div><br></div><div>Why is "red herring" not in any way <span style="font-style:normal">analyzable? As a native speaker, it feels like it has parts, although it is certainly not compositional. As speakers we know how to pluralize it, and for example in a language with noun-adjective agreement that would apply consistently, including when pluralized. It seems to me this would have the same status as idioms, which also have parts (e.g. "kick the bucket" has a past tense "kicked the bucket"). Of course my observation may just be that there is a very wide range of possible types of "analysis".</span></div><div><span style="font-style:normal"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-style:normal">Daniel<br></span></div><div><span style="font-style:normal"></span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 7:53 AM Christian Lehmann <<a href="mailto:christian.lehmann@uni-erfurt.de">christian.lehmann@uni-erfurt.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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As more examples of forms that are analyzable but not compositional,
consider such series as <i>conceive, perceive, receive, deceive</i>
and compare them with <i>compel, repel</i> and many more of this
kind. It appears that morphological analysis has to reckon with
forms that are analyzable by methodological principles (of
distribution, analogy etc.) without any requirement of "recurrent
form-meaning pairings".<br>
<p> Best,</p>
<p>Christian<br>
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