Post-Inflectional Rule
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A Post-Inflection Rule is a Morphological Rule that can convert a Word Form into a ...???... nother Word Form.
- AKA: Post-Inflection Rule, PIR, Morphological Post-Inflection Rule, Word Post-Inflection Rule.
- Context:
- It can be a Word Contraction Rule.
- Example(s):
- By Acronym Generation Process combines the first letter of a long Entity Name.
- “Common Era” ⇒ "CE”.
- “International Business Machines” ⇒ IBM (or I.B.M.)
- By Abbreviation Generation Process, e.g. the first few letters
- advertisement ⇒ ad
- brother ⇒ bro
- By Content Word Contraction Rule.
- “I'll” ← “I will”.
- “let's” ← “let us”.
- “it's” ← “it is”.
- By Function Word Contraction Rule.
- “auf’m Auto” ← “auf dem Auto” (~ “on the car”)
- “weil’s” ← “weil es” (~ “because it”).
- “ain't” ← “am not”.
- “wouldn't've” ← “would not have”.
- By Acronym Generation Process combines the first letter of a long Entity Name.
References
2003
- (Sag et al., 2003) ⇒ Ivan A. Sag, Thomas Wasow, and Emily M. Bender. (2003). “Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction, 2nd edition." CSLI Publications.
- NOTES: It includes a Post-Inflectional Rule into its Syntactic Theory.