Morphological Chracteristics Of SLE

Question 1

Fernando (2012)

What are the morphological processes the above scholar states?

Answer 1

1) AFFIXATION
Ex surrendees, chummery, eateries/eatry

2) COMPOUNDS - temple flower, nose ring, head bath
States compounds are fairly large in SLE vocabulary.

3) ACRONYMS ex: JVP
4) ABBREVIATIONS ex: kuppi

5) BORROWINGS  
States that borrowings of SLE show phonological,morphological and syntactic substitutions. 
Colpetty - kollupitiya (phon)
Sinhalese - sinahala  (morph)
Albert ayya - brother Albert (synt) 

• DIRECT BORROWINGS
  No morphemic substitutions are possible ❌
  Phonemic are possible
  Ex ranasura padakkama, murukku
• LOAN BLENDS (hybridization of morphemes from 2 lans)
  • blend hybrids ex :kabaragoya
  • derivative hybrids ex :rasthiyadufying
  • compound hybrids ex : Kohomba tree

-LOAN SHIFTS
* loan translations
Borrowed as translations from another language.
Ex monsoon rain, yellow rice

• semantic shifts
  No morphemic importation from the mode language but semantic value changes.
  Ex tiger, tube light

6) SEMANTIC CREATIONS
Created specifically for the context ex: butter fruit, wood apple

Question 2

Gunesekara (2010)

What are the morphological processes the above talk about

Answer 2

1) BORROWINGS
ex: konde, machan

2)COMPOUNDS
eng +eng ex: funeral house, love cake
Sin/tam + eng ex bath curry, athe caught

3) AFFIXATION
suffix ing ex: thadeying
Double suffixes ex: rasthiyadufying
Empty moph+ suffix ex: podering

4) COINAGES WITH ‘ATION’
Ex: Peoplization, saffronization

5) ABBREVIATIONS
Ex: kelam bokks, jornos

6) DUPLICATION
Ex: small small, very very

7)SEMANTIC CHANGE
Ex: flower girl, basket woman

Question 3

Mendis and Rambukwella (2010)

Answer 3

COMPOUNDS

Ex: floor paint, jumping seat, line rooms

AFFIXATION

•States that compounds are fairly large.