Definition and Examples of Replacives in English

Definition and Examples of Replacives in English In English sentence structure and morphology, a replacive is a word component that substitutes for another component inside a stem. For instance, the e in men (the plural type of man) is viewed as a replacive component. Replacives areâ considered to be allomorphs, notes Philip Orazio Tartaglia. All the more explicitly, the replacive associated with going from goose to geese is an allomorph of the plural morpheme. Accordingly, we see that young men, felines, roses, bulls, sheep, and geese, all contain the plural morpheme however each contains aâ different allomorph of the plural morpheme (Problems in the Construction of a Theory of Natural Language).â Models and Observations The term [replacive] is especially utilized in the mark replacive transform or replacive morpheme to empower unpredictable structures, for example, men from man and sang or sung from sing to be depicted in morphemic terms, in spite of falling outside the direct principles for framing thing plurals or past action word shapes by the expansion of inflections.(Sylvia Chalker and Edmund Weiner, Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar. Oxford University Press, 1994)Tooth and Teeth: One Word or Two?-  [A] manufactured, tooth-shaded material the consistency of mixture is synthetically combined onto recolored, chipped, generally dispersed, or distorted teeth and formed into whatever new shape is desired.(Justine De Lacy, The New Skin of Your Teeth. New York, August 3, 1981)- Consider then the sentences This tooth needs consideration and These teeth need consideration. Are tooth and teeth examples of a similar word or of various words? In one sense they are plainly unique: they vary in articula tion, spelling, which means and in their syntactic conduct. In another sense, in any case, they are indications of a solitary component, and to be sure they are generally supposed to be types of a similar word. We along these lines have two unmistakable ideas here, the subsequent more dynamic than the principal: I will utilize word in the less conceptual detect and present the term lexeme for the more unique one. Along these lines I will say that tooth and teeth are various words, yet types of a similar lexeme. . . .All the more decisively, we will say that tooth and teeth are diverse inflectional types of tooth, and will talk about particular and plural here as inflectional properties. So also with action words: sang and sung, for instance, are separately the past tense and the past participle types of the lexeme sing.(Rodney Huddleston, English Grammar: An Outline. Cambridge University Press, 1988) Action words Derived From Nouns[W]e treat thing plurals in English, for example, men, feet, mice, teeth as happening with replacives (for example substitutions which are morphemic). . . . Replacive morphemes . . . may comprise of segmental or suprasegmental phonemes . . .. A somewhat rarer sort of substitution is spoken to by the English arrangement shower : wash, sheath : sheathe, wreath : wreathe, teeth : teethe, safe : spare, conflict : endeavor, hoodlum : steal, pain : lament, half : split, rack : hold, serf : serve, guidance : prompt, house/haws/: house/hawz/, and so on. In each pair, the thing has a voiceless continuant, the action word a voiced continuant. In the event that we consent to get the action words from the things, we set up three replacive components . . .; however since these three components show a phonetic-semantic likeness to one another, and since their event is phonologically molded, we join them into a solitary replacive morpheme.(Eugene A. Nida, The Identifi cation of Morphemes. Morphology: Critical Concepts in Linguistics, ed. by Francis Katamba. Routledge, 2004)