[Lingtyp] Comorphemization (?)

[JOO Ian]

Dear Mae,

What I meant was cases like Spanish niño and niña or Chinese er-zi and nü-er, which mean son and daughter and share the same morpheme (niñ-, er, respectively), as opposed to English son and daughter which do not share any.

Regards,
Ian

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朱　易安
JOO, IAN
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小樽商科大学
Otaru University of Commerce

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2024/09/30 17:25, Mae Carroll <mattcarrollj at gmail.com> 작성:


Hi Ian

I suppose you mean syncretism, which is where some morphological formative, e.g. a morpheme if that's your approach, covers multiple meanings or multiple cells in the paradigm which aren't captured by a single feature. Some people reserve the term for whole word syncretism while others are fine with applying the term to morphological formatives. Another term is morphological/inflectional/derivational homonymy.

I am not sure I follow your example of Son and Daughter, do you mean they share some affix or do you mean their stem is the same? If it's their stem why isn't it different from just homonymy.

Also, I think the term colexification is for when a type of lexical homonymy that is systematic, structured and culturally relevant, so I am not sure exactly how this might apply to morphology.

Interesting thought.

Best
Mae

Dr Mae Carroll (she/her)
Lecturer in Linguistics
School of Languages and Linguistics
University of Melbourne
www.maecarroll.com<http://www.maecarroll.com/>


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On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 6:15 PM JOO Ian via Lingtyp <lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org<mailto:lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org>> wrote:
Dear typologists,

Two meanings sharing one lexeme is known as colexification. Is there also a word for two meanings sharing one morpheme (but not necessarily the same lexeme), such as the lexemes for SON and DAUGHTER sharing the same morpheme?

Regards,
Ian

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JOO, IAN
准教授
Associate Professor
小樽商科大学
Otaru University of Commerce

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