[Lingtyp] Terminology for grammatical morphemes that have to co-occur with other grammatical morphemes

[Jocelyn Aznar]

Dear Cat Butz,

I like the term colligation, that comes from corpus studies, and in 
particular authors like Firth, Sinclair and Hoey, who developed and 
further refined the concept.

In a few words, while collocations are for the co-occurrence of forms, 
colligation is usually used to describe categories that tend to occur 
together.

There is this chapter from Tomas Lehecka that introduces well the concept:
https://pure.mpg.de/rest/items/item_2304786/component/file_2304785/content

Best,
Jocelyn Aznar


Le 06/03/2025 à 15:10, Cat Butz via Lingtyp a écrit :
> Dear community,
> 
> I hope you're all doing well.
> 
> Let's say we have three grammatical morphemes: A, B, and C. Let's say 
> they all modify verbs.
> 
> A occurs as the only modifier of a verb, but it also co-occurs with B.
> B doesn't occur on its own, but always co-occurs with A or C.
> C doesn't occur on its own, but always co-occurs with B.
> 
> So we have the following combos:
> 
> A-verb
> B-A-verb
> B-C-verb
> 
> Do you know any kind of terminology for describing this sort of 
> interdependence of morphemes, where we have e.g. "independent" ones like 
> A, "kind of dependent" ones like B, and "fully dependent" ones like C? 
> Is there any literature on this?
> 
> Warmest,