morphologizev.
/mɔːˈfɒlədʒʌɪz/, U.S. /mɔrˈfɑləˌdʒaɪz/ Linguistics.
transitive. To subject (a phonetic feature or process) to morphologization. Also intransitive. Frequently in passive.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > morpheme > use morphemes [verb (transitive)] > reinterpret as morpheme
morphologize1974
1974 J. B. Hooper in Parasession on Nat. Phonol. (Chicago Linguistic Soc.) 165 We know that the tenseness distinction is morphologized.
1975 Language 51 556 Obligatory natural rules cannot be simply dropped from the grammar; they can be morphologized and restricted, and eventually lost.
1999 Jrnl. Eng. Linguistics 27 98 Quite clearly, were regularization has morphologized as a negative form in Lumbee Vernacular English.
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morˈphologized adj.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > morpheme > [adjective] > reinterpreted as morpheme
morphologized1974
1974 J. B. Hooper in Parasession on Nat. Phonol. (Chicago Linguistic Soc.) 161 Every rule of morpho-phonological grammar (i.e. both phonetically motivated rules and morphologically or grammatically conditioned rules, which I call morphophonemic or morphologized rules) must represent [etc.].
1988 Language 64 412 Herslund believes that the morphologized sandhi of Portuguese object pronouns..is ‘apparently losing ground in innovating dialects’, which generalize the o form.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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