Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Challenge #3: Verbal morphology occasionally affecting nouns

In English, past participle-like morphology sometimes is used in combination with nouns to create a kind of adjective pertaining to possession or such:
a six-legged creature
a two-pronged approach
turreted walls
 What other things  could one do with things like this?

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  1. AnonymousJanuary 16, 2013 at 6:15 PM

    One obvious thing is past-tense like morphology being used to mean the same thing that "ex-" does in English.

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    1. MiekkoJanuary 18, 2013 at 10:24 AM

      I find that a bit too wide a thing, and also reuses past-tense morphology. I'd be more interesting in something like, I dunno, whoops, that became a new post.

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