Nominalized inflectional morphemes

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:05 PM -0500 8/30/02, Gordon, Matthew J. wrote:
>A fairly recent example of a derivational morpheme becoming nominal
>is "un" as used in the 7up ads of a few years ago (e.g., Are you an
>un?).
>
And there are others--"anti", "pro" (though the latter can also be a
preposition), "pre" and "post" on occasion.  But the inflectional
ones would be rarer if they occurred at all (besides the Latin one
cited).   "-ism", cited by Thomas Joyce, is also derivational.

Larry