Re: Corpora: Affixes in Derivational Morpholology

From: Andrew Kehoe (andrew@rdues.liv.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Sep 07 2001 - 11:02:28 MET DST

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    Hi

    Our APRIL (Analysis and Prediction of Innovation in the Lexicon) project
    includes a system to morphologically analyse new and rare words. An online demo
    is available at http://www.rdues.liv.ac.uk/aprdemo/

    With the Affix option on the query tool you will find our lists of prefixes and
    suffixes (104 prefixes and 128 suffixes). These lists are not categorised
    semantically but you may find them useful.

    You may also want to look at:

    Marchand, H "The categories and types of present-day English word-formation"
    (Beck: Munchen, 1969)

    Andrew Kehoe
    Research and Development Unit for English Studies
    University of Liverpool
    http://www.rdues.liv.ac.uk
    WebCorp: http://www.webcorp.org.uk

    > Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 14:55:34 +0100 (BST)
    > From: Darren Pearce <darrenp@cogs.susx.ac.uk>
    > X-Sender: darrenp@rsunx.crn.cogs.susx.ac.uk
    > To: CORPORA list <corpora@hd.uib.no>
    > Subject: Corpora: Affixes in Derivational Morpholology
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    >
    > Hi,
    >
    > I wonder if anyone can help me...
    >
    > I am looking for a list of morphological affixes used in derivational
    > morphology for English.
    >
    > eg. anti-, -ness, -th, pseudo-, quasi-, -ish
    >
    > I have seen estimates of around 75 prefixes and 230 suffixes. Ideally,
    > this list would come with semantic sub-categorisation.
    >
    > eg. negation:
    > a- (as in asexual)
    > im- (as in immoral)
    > in- (as in inanimate)
    > approximation:
    > pesudo-
    > quasi-
    > -ish
    >
    > Any help is greatly appreciated. Last resort is to generate the list
    > automatically from MRDs. However, subcategorisation will be difficult
    > using this approach...
    >
    > Thanks,
    >
    > Darren.
    >
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