<!>Derivation ideas (2014-02-05 21:20:40)
Derivation ideas
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? Travis B. posts: 603
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I tried adding some affixes for derivation of nouns from verbs, and ran into the problem that the nouns created looked distinctly different from other nouns, in that the vast majority of existing noun stems are a single syllable and the onset of a following syllable and a filler vowel to be added after that in some inflected forms, while derived forms are either bisyllables with a consonant cluster or long consonant after it and a filler vowel or trisyllables with a following consonant and a filler vowel. Yet the typical zero-derivation does not work because zero-derived "nouns" from verbs are gerunds or subordinate clause-like which take arguments (and may have subjects).