Nominalized inflectional morphemes

[Joyce, Thomas F.]

How about "ism"?

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Sadowsky [mailto:lists at SPANISHTRANSLATOR.ORG]
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 10:18 PM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Nominalized inflectional morphemes


The word "bus", from the Latin "omnibus", is curious in that it's a
nominalized inflectional morpheme -- the ablative (I believe) of "omni".

Can anyone think of any similar cases?

Cheers,
Scott


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