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Linglib.Morphology.RootFamily

Root families: category-changing morphology #

[Mar97]

A root family records the word forms a single (sub-morphemic) root projects across lexical categories — the [Mar97] uncategorised-roots pattern: the category of the surface word is determined by the morphological environment, not by the root itself.

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Consumers: Studies/Panagiotidis2015.lean (categoriser theory + the English root-family sample), Studies/McNallyDeSwart2011.lean (AdjEntry.toRootFamily adapter for Dutch adjective entries).

The lexical category of a word form (theory-neutral).

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      A root family: a set of word forms derived from a common root, each appearing in a different lexical category.

      • rootLabel : String

        Label for the root (approximate; roots are sub-morphemic)

      • forms : List (String × LexCat)

        Word forms and their categories

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          Does this root family have a form in the given category?

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