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The document summarizes the allomorphs, or phonologically and morphologically conditioned variants, of inflectional morphemes in Present-Day English. It provides examples of allomorphs for plural nouns, verb tense and aspect markers, comparatives, superlatives, and ordinal numbers. It also notes that some morphemes have no phonologically conditioned allomorphs.

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Allomorphs of the inflectional morphemes in PDE (adapted from Schmid 2011: 61)

MORPHEME PHONOLOGICALLY CONDITIONED

HS Kornexl: Structural Change (WS 2013/14)


MORPHOLOGICALLY CONDITIONED

plural of nouns: {S}

allomorphs /z/ /s/ /Iz/ /z/ /s/ /Iz/

environment: stem ending in vowel or voiced consonant1 unvoiced consonant2 sibilant: /z/, /s/, /Z/, /S/, //, //

examples bees, bags, bells bats, backs, lips roses, kisses, matches, bridges sisters, Bettys, Janes, dogs Jacks, cats Mrs Daviss, Georges Socrates, Dickens, brothers, the girls

forms replacive allomorph5 /@n/ foreign plurals (polysyllabic Greek names ending in /z/

examples sheep, deer, fish men, women, geese, mice oxen, children, brethren alumni, formulae,curricula, criteria Socrates, Xerxes

vowel or voiced consonant1 unvoiced consonant2 sibilant: /z/, /s/, /Z/, /S/, //, // with historical names; in genitive plural 3rd p.sg.pres. of verbs cf. plural of nouns present participle /IN/ no allomorphs past tense {D1} /d/ vowel or voiced consonant3 past participle {D2} unvoiced consonant4 /t/ alveolar plosives /d/, /t/ /Id/ genitive {S} comparative {er} superlative {est} ordinal numbers
1 5 6 7

suppletion cried, stored, loved, walked, kissed, wrapped sounded, hunted replacive allomorph6 /@n/7 suppletion suppletion suppletion suppletion

is cut, hit, put sang/sung; fought, fought risen, spoken, taken, was, were, went better, worse best, worst first, second, third

/@/ /Ist/, /@st/ /T/

no phonologically conditioned allomorphs no phonologically conditioned allomorphs no phonologically conditioned allomorphs

except voiced sibilants; 2 except unvoiced sibilants; 3 except /d/; 4 except /t/ from a diachronic perspective: umlaut plurals through i-umlaut/i-mutation from a diachronic perspective: strong verbs, forming their past tenses through ablaut (vowel gradation) usually in combination with ablaut

ablaut: The morphological variation of a root vowel in Germanic and other Indo-European languages; = gradation n. 11. Occurring esp. in Germanic strong verbs, as English sing, sang, sung, and distinguished from variation arising from assimilation to a succeeding vowel sound (umlaut n. a). umlaut: A change in the sound of a vowel produced by partial assimilation to an adjacent sound (usually that of a vowel or semivowel in the following syllable); = mutation n. 5c. OED3 online, s.vv. [accessed 25 October 2013] Schmid, Hans-Jrg (2011), English morphology and word-formation: An introduction, Berlin: Erich Schmidt.

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