replaciven.adj.

1948 E. A. Nida in Language 24 429 We treat noun plurals in English such as men, feet, mice, teeth as occurring with ‘replacives’ (i.e. replacements which are morphemic).

1977 Word 28 203 Complicated series of alterations: some replacives (e.g. Glama), but also syncope, assimilation, and so on.

2003 Linguistics (Nexis) 1 Nov. 989 When combinations of third person pronouns are desired, the nonreplacive se is used to combine with the replacives lo(s) and la(s).

1948 E. A. Nida in Language 24 440 Morphemes may be classified..as (1) additive, (2) replacive, (3) additive and replacive, and (4) subtractive.

1974 P. H. Matthews Morphol. vii. 122 Men, for example, would be said to consist of the regular allomorph man of the morpheme man plus a ‘replacive morph’ (‘replace a with e’ or ‘a → e’).

1994 C. V. J. Russ German Lang. Today viii. 176 Various possibilities of dividing these and other forms have been suggested: tr..nk and a; trink and a ‘replacive’ morpheme, for example ‘i is replaced by a’; and trank plus a zero variant of the past tense morpheme.

1962 Ethnohist. 9 100 Assimilation (or replacive) integration: Old patterns in one culture are replaced with acceptable patterns of the other dominant socio-cultural system.

1973 Amer. Educ. Res. Jrnl. 10 144 State aid is more helpful to suburban schools than city schools because it tends to be additive for the former but replacive for the latter.

1985 J. A. Fishman Rise & Fall of Ethnic Revival xiii. 446 Slipping easily from an auxiliary to a replacive stance toward the own favored language.

2003 W. R. Garr In his Own Image & Likeness vii. 140 The representational ‘image’ is replacive; it can function as the referent's surrogate.