Wednesday, January 30th, 2013 @ 11:56PM
Superstrate
A prestige language variety that influences another variety through contact from “above,” i.e., through promulgation of characteristics perceived by the community as being of higher social standing. (sociolinguistics)
Posted by Lee Ballard
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Friday, April 12th, 2013 @ 2:29PM
Suppletion
When a word form is not phonologically derived from the base form to mark a type of inflection/derivation. (Ex. Happy –> Happier, Happiest vs. Good–>Better–>Best: Better and Best are suppletive forms of Good.) (morphology)
Posted by Joel Deacon
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Thursday, January 24th, 2013 @ 6:42AM
Suprafix
A suprafix marks a morphological category with a suprasegmental feature, e.g., stress, length, and tone. (morphology)
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