Timeline for Is it possible to regard "vacant" and "vacancy" as allomorphs (variants) of the same root in Modern English?
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| Sep 5, 2011 at 16:29 | vote | accept | subic | ||
| Aug 20, 2011 at 12:07 | comment | added | Matt E. Эллен | @Kiamlaluno: which I believe they do | |
| Aug 20, 2011 at 11:59 | comment | added | avpaderno | If they were allomorphs of the same root morpheme, then the root morpheme should change without to change function. | |
| Aug 20, 2011 at 9:00 | comment | added | Matt E. Эллен | yes, the vaca of vacancy is IMO the same morpheme as the one in vacancy, but they are phonologically different. | |
| Aug 20, 2011 at 8:57 | comment | added | subic | So vacant and vacancy are allomorphs of the same ME root morpheme, aren't they? | |
| Aug 20, 2011 at 8:27 | history | answered | Matt E. Эллен | CC BY-SA 3.0 |