[Lingtyp] Comorphemization (?)

[Martin Haspelmath]

In addition to “colexification“, languages often show 
“cogrammification”, i.e. the use of the same grammatical morph for two 
different (comparative) meanings.

Cogrammification has often been called “syncretism”, or “grammatical 
polysemy”, but we need to distinguish between comparative concepts 
(colexification, cogrammification) and language-particular analyses 
(polysemy vs. indeterminacy).

Colexification and cogrammification are two special cases of coexpression.

(I talk about some of these issues in my 2023 paper, where I also use 
the term “coexpression diagram” for the traditional “semantic map”: 
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1236853/full)


The terminology proposed in that paper presupposes the distinction 
between lexical morphs (roots) and grammatical morphs (bound non-roots). 
Thus, Spanish niñ- would be colexification (because the same lexical 
morph is shared), but one might want to talk about "coradification" 
(shared root) for precision.

Best,

Martin Haspelmath

On 30.09.24 10:28, Thomas Brochhagen via Lingtyp wrote:
> Dear Ian,
>
> Among others, there's also partial colexification (see, e.g., List 
> 2003 "Inference of partial colexifications from multilingual 
> wordlists" and references within) and loose colexification (see, e.g., 
> Francois 2008 "Semantic maps and the typology of colexification"). 
> There are some fine differences in the use of these terms but they are 
> both used to talk about a partial but not complete sharing of forms. 
> This, most of the time, means two forms that have (some but not all) 
> morphemes in common.
>
> Best, Thomas
>
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 10:15 AM JOO Ian via Lingtyp 
> <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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