What principle of grammar do allomorphs illustrate?
have shrunk have walked children mice Principle: Morphemes that appear to be different can be identical in function and meaning. 9. Consider the following sentence, and then answer the questions that follow. The most magable laggists were phredily midifying that swaggish magwadom. i. Which WORDS in the above sentence are nouns? Prove that you’re right by indicating the identifying inflections and derivational affixes. Example: Laggists is a noun; it carries an “s” that reads as an INFL noun plural and shows a DER “ist” ending that often indicates a particular kind of person (centrist, communist); mawadom ends with a DER affix that often creates a few nouns (kingdom). ii. Which WORDS in the above underlined sentence are adjectives? Prove that you’re right by indicating the identifying inflections and derivational affixes. Magable is ADJ. It ends with a DER able that often creates ADJs and is preceded by the whole word allomorph of the INFL ADJ superlative est. Swaggish is also an ADJ–i
