Morphology: Corpora

• Morphemes: un / gentle / man / li / ness, un / system / atic / al / ly

• Productivity: *th.[n*], *en.[v*]

  • How productive are -ese, -hood, and -ism in nouns?

  • Which is more productive -ity or -ness?

• Blends: Match up the following:
   

1	Reintarnation	When a middle-aged man sucks in his stomach while being introduced to an attractive woman
2	Karmageddon	The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly
3	Dopeler effect	A magazine for executioners
4	Intaxication	The little smudge I came home with on my collar that makes my wife act like it's the end of the world
5	Hipatitis	Pranks conducted by young men studying for the priesthood
6	Tumfoolery	A document given to each graduating pope
7	Polarvoid	Coming back to life as a hillbilly
8	Sarchasm	Terminal coolness
9	Guillozine	It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like a serious bummer
10	Pontificate	A fight among vampires
11	Semantics	The state of having no baby pictures, a condition that usually befalls the second-born child
12	Spatula	Euphoria at receiving a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with
13	Apocalypstic	The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the reader who doesn't get it

Real-life Blends: chortle, smog, motel, electrocute, workaholic

Nouns

• Number: regular plurals end in -s (*s.[nn2]). (How would you find singular forms ending in -s?)

  • Irregular (-*s.[nn2])

    • Latin/Greek

    • Zero

• Gender

  • Forms for women (How would you search for nouns ending in -woman or -person?)

  • "he or she"

• Derivational (How would you find nouns beginning with counter-, kilo, or poly-? What register are they common in?)

  • Prefixes: auto-, bi-, bio-, co-, counter-, dis-, ex-, fore-, hyper-, in-, inter-, kilo-, mal-, mega-, mini-, mis-, mono-, neo-, non-, out-, poly-, re-, semi-, sub-, super-, tele-, tri-, ultra-, under-, vice-

  • Suffixes: -age, -al, -(i)an, -a/ence, -a/ent, -cy, -dom, -ee, -e/or, -(e)ry, -ese, -ess, -ette, -ful, -hood, -ician, -ie/y, -ing, -ism, -ist, -ite, -ity, -let, -ment, -ness, -ship, -tion, -ure

• Compounding

  • [nn*] [nn*] (e.g. bar code), [nn*]*er.[vv*] (e.g. dishwasher), [nn*]*ing.[vv*] (e.g. housekeeping), *-*ing.[nn*] (filing cabinet)

Adjectives

• Participles: -ing, -ed

• Derivational: -al, -ent, -ive, -ous, -ate, -ful, -less (Compare -al adjectives in academic writing and fiction. What do -ar adjectives have in common?)

• Compounds: *-*.[aj*]

• Comparatives (Do people say things like more redder? How would you search for that? Did people say things like that historically?)

Verbs

• Regular: person, number, tense (What register is more common for verbs ending in -ing, versus -en? How about verbs ending in third person -s)

• “Confusion” among verbal forms (Using GoogleFight: dove/dived, proven/proved, sewn/sewed, drank/drunk/drunken,(drinken??), striven/strived, thriven/thrived, shone/shined, hoven/heaved, snuck/sneaked, swollen/swelled)

• Derivational

  • Prefixes: dis-, mis-, out-, over-, re-, un-

  • Un-:

  • Suffixes: -ate, -ify, -ize, -en