[Lingtyp] Comorphemization (?)

[JOO Ian]

Dear Mattis and Mark,

the phenomenon itself is of course not strange or special because - as Mark also said - it is the very nature of morphemes.
However I think it is meaningful to say, for example (using the term “comorphic” suggested by Guillaume) that in certain languages, SON and DAUGHTER are comorphic, whereas in certain languages they are not. Other interesting questions would be: Are OPEN and CLOSE comorphic in language X? In what languages are LEND and BORROW colexified, comorphic, or totally different (heteromorphic)?
So while lexemes sharing morphemes as a general phenomenon is not interesting, typological classification based on certain pairs of meanings may be. This is why I think we need a term for it.

Regards,
Ian

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小樽商科大学
Otaru University of Commerce

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2024/09/30 18:49, Mattis List via Lingtyp <lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org> 작성:


I'd agree with Thomas that this is in fact covered by partial colexification. You could also say that it is language-internal cognacy, since you assume the morpheme to be reused in the same language. Our ERC project (https://calclab.org<https://calclab.org/>) deals with this in particular in the context of word families. Additional terms are not needed, in my opinion, they make it sound more strange as it is: all languages re-use lexical material, in historical linguistics we have always been talking about cognates in this context.

List, J.-M. (forthcoming): Productive Signs: A computer-assisted analysis of evolutionary, typological, and cognitive dimensions of word families. In: : International Conference of Linguists.0. 1-12.

https://doi.org/10.17613/zfwr-sn25

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