1. Verb as an input Noun as an output
   • [[x]V ion]N
   • act- action
   • distract- distraction
   • adapt- adaption
2. Noun as an input Ver as an output
   1. [[x]Y en] y=N OR A
   2. dark-darken
   3. height-heighten
   4. bright-brighten
3. action-actionen, distraction- distractionen , adaption- adaptionen
   1.  Using this process the words came out as non existing words. No one uses words like acten, distracten, or adapten while speaking or writing.  Adding an extra suffix en to a suffix that is already there (ion) makes the words not well formed.

1. [ [ x] v ion]n 

React – Reaction 

Create- Creation 

Correlate – Correlation 

2) [ [ x] y en] v          y= A , N 

Length – Lengthen 

Spoke – Spoken 

Strength- Strengthen 

3)  React- Reactionen 

Create- Creationen 

Correlate – Correlationen 

When applying the output from number one and the process used for number two the words did not come out as well formed. The words are also non existing words. Although I think an English speaker would be able to understand what a person meant if they used the example “creationen”. However they are still non existing words. I think the reason this process does not work is because their is already an ending [ion] and when adding [en] on top of that suffix it does not make sense. Therefor being an ungrammatical word.

1. Verb to noun

Ation:

[[X] V ation] N

Transport → Transportation

Populate → Population

Exclaim → Exclamation

2. Noun to verb

Ify:

[[X] Y ify] V              where Y=N,A (noun, adjective)

Nouns:

Justice → Justify

Clarity → Clarify

Identity → Identify

Adjectives:

Pure → Purify

Diverse → Diversify

Intense → Intensify

3. Outcomes:

Transportationify, Populationify, Exclamationify

The resulting words are not well-formed and do not exist. What doesn’t seem to work about this process is the affixes. It seems you cant have 2 affixes put together. Ation and ify just doesn’t make sense. It seems in most cases, noun endings and verb endings don’t fit together. If we’re combining affixes for different lexical categories, we would basically be creating new words, a combination of nouns and verbs, like nerbs or vouns.

1- Verb to noun: -ment 

punish –> punishment

argue –> argument

assign –> assignment

2: noun to verb: -en

light –>lighten

strength –> strengthen

fright –> frighten

3: Output of 1 with input of 2

punishment –> punishmenten

argument –> argumenten

assignment –> assignementen

With the outcome punishmenten, arguementen, and assignmenten they are clearly words that are not well formed nor are they already existing words. The two affixes that i had chosen dont go hand in hand together, like most, but some words are always an exception. A working two affixes would be carelessness and apprehensiveness. But analyzing my chosen ones dont qualify. This process seems to work with words that go from noun to noun changing. It does not seem to work with noun to verb to noun changing words as the meaning is lost even though it can be a word.

1) verb to noun: -ism

-ism, [[X]V ism]N

Plagiarize -> plagiarism, baptize → baptism, criticize → criticism

2) noun-to-verb: -ify

-ify, [[X]N ify]V

Beauty → beautify, test→ testify, glory → glorify 

3) Output words in (1) as the inputs in (2)

Plagiarism → Plagiarismify, Baptism→ Baptismify, Criticism → Criticismify

The words plagiarismify, baptismify, and criticismify are clearly not well-formed and are not already-existing words. It is possible to have words that contain a double suffix such as “recklessness” and “intuitively”. However, in this case, the outcome of forming these new words doesn’t seem to work because it’s too overbearing. The following words are examples of constraints because the ordering of affixes is too complex. Every language has rules about which combinations of sounds are allowed. These rules don’t seem to violate English phonotactics, but create a lexical gap. Therefore, I think its possible that these words could exist in a language but happen not to.

1. Verb to noun : -ee 

-ee, [[X]v ee]N

 

Refuge  →  Refugee , Attend → Attendee, Employ → Employee 

 

1. Noun to verb : -ify

 

-ify, [[X]Y ify]V where Y=N,A

 

Example → Exemplify, Fort → Fortify, Ample → Amplify

• Output of 1 with Input of 2

            

Contemplate → Contemplatify, Information → Informationify, Transformation → Transformationify

 

The resulting words are neither well-formed nor already-existing words. Those do not make sense nor sound right when trying to pronounce as we added one affix right after the other. Not only that but also the affix added to output 1 is meant to form a noun from a verb while the affix added to output 2 is meant to form a verb from a noun. While having that in mind, it makes sense that the combination of them make no sense. What we can do is simply use one affix at a time and one that fits our purpose, either noun or verb formation, especially for the given examples above.

 

   

1. A suffix that nominalizes verbs is (-ion).

The rule for this suffix is [[X]y ion]n, where y= V or A.

Examples include:

Relate -> Relation, Create -> Creation, and React -> Reaction.

 

2. A suffix that verbalizes nouns is (-ate).

The rule for this suffix is [[X]n ate]v.

Examples include:

Assassin -> Assassinate, Decor -> Decorate, Saliva -> Salivate.

 

3. Relation -> Relationate

Creation -> Creationate

Reaction -> Reactionate

When I used the outputs from (1) as inputs for the rule in (2), the new outputs were not well formed.  They are also not words that already exist.  I think that this process doesn’t work because of the fact that the stem words are verbs.  Therefore, it seems that in order to change the nouns that were formed from the rule in (1) back into verbs, the suffix that was added must be dropped- as opposed to adding yet another suffix.

1. Verb to Noun: –ment

-ment, [[X]v ment]n

Assign -> Assignment, Develop -> Development, Embarrass -> Embarrassment

2. Noun to Verb: -ed

-ed, [[X]n ed]v

Name -> Named, Face -> Faced, Wait -> Waited

3. Output to Input

1) Assignment -> Assignmented

2) Developed -> Developmented

3) Embarrassment -> Embarrassmented

The resulting words of my output to input words were not well-formed. Nonetheless, these words are nonexistent. Nothing seems to work about this process. Being that the output words already has a suffix (-ment), adding another suffix (-ed) would not function well together within this process. Furthermore, in order for this process to be successful you would have to use words that do not have present affixes. Adding an affix to a word that already has an existing one would only lead you to unsuccessful results.

 

 

 

ion[[x]v ion]N

decide -> decision, explain -> explanation , produce -> production

en [[x]n en]v

short ->shorten , thick->thicken, strength-> strengthen

 

(1). Verb to noun:

-ation, [[X]y ation]N    y=V,N

• expect →expectation, explore →exploration, bother →botheration (we can also input nouns and the output would be nouns using “-ation” Ex: “instrument -ation and experiment -ation) 

 

(2). Noun to verb:

-en, [[X]N en]v

• Strength →strengthen,  fright →frighten, threat →threaten

 

(3). Output (1) → Input (2):

• expectation →expectationen, exploration →explorationen, botheration →botherationen

The resulting words that have been formed from the outputs in (1) and from the inputs in (2), are not well formed words. Not only are these words not well formed, but they are not already-existing words. Nothing seems to operate or work in this process, because the output words e.g. expectation, exploration, and botheration already has an existing suffix (-ation). So, adding an extra suffixation (-en) does not correlate all together. Also, when trying to pronounce these new words, there’s an awkward pause “expectation-en” which indicates an imbalance when trying to pronounce these new derived words. If I were to take the suffixation (-en) and add it to the input words in question (1) ex: “bother-en,” it still would not be an existing word because of the categorisation. Although the pronunciation is more natural and balanced than if we had two suffixation (-ation, -en). In order to have already existing well formed words, we have to have the right lexical categorisation in correlation to the right suffixation to formulate well derived words.