Post-Inflectional Rule

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”.

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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.

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