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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">A comprehensive analytic procedure is
described in<br>
Nida, Eugene A. 1949, <i>Morphology. The descriptive analysis of
words.</i> Ann Arbor, Mich.: . 2. ed.<br>
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A summary of the method is in<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.christianlehmann.eu/ling/lg_system/grammar/morph_syn/index.php?open=strukt_morphologie.inc#Morph_Analyse">https://www.christianlehmann.eu/ling/lg_system/grammar/morph_syn/index.php?open=strukt_morphologie.inc#Morph_Analyse</a><br>
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As for vowelless prefixes, Russian has lots of them.<br>
Best, Christian<br>
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Am 20.10.24 um 07:22 schrieb Joe Blythe via Lingtyp:<br>
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I’d like some help please coming up with a better rule of
thumb for explicating morpheme boundaries to students. I teach
a third year undergraduate morphosyntax unit. When beginning
with orthodox agglutinative morphology, I usually give my
students a kind of rule of thumb, that when presented with a
particular problem set, they should generally allocate as much
phonological material as possible to the root (or stem), and
the remainder can be allocated to an affix. I don’t recall
where I learned this, but it always seemed to me the sensible
thing to do. Whether it is justified I’m not so sure. There
are however occasions when it seems sensible to ensure that an
affix contains at least a vowel. Yet there are certainly some
affixes that lack a nucleus (the examples I’m thinking of are
all suffixes). So rightly or wrongly, I have two guiding
principles here that are pushing in opposite directions. And
there are always a few students who get all the glosses
correct but have carved the joints differently. These
solutions look odd to me but I struggle to explain why I find
them unsatisfactory. Now for every language it is usually
possible determine where to carve the joints, given enough
data. But when presented with a small dataset for some random
language (perhaps without even a name), how should we explain
why prefixes generally need vowels? Actually, is this last
point even true? I feel these issues has probably been
discussed somewhere at length. If so, can you point me to some
relevant literature, as I’d like to provide some advice that’s
typologically grounded, not on what feels like the right thing
to do. <o:p></o:p></p>
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Joe</p>
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