Abstract

There are three main ways to form a word such as derivation, compounding and blending. Paradoxically, knowledge of morphemes and morphological rules of languages is revealed by the morphological mistakes we make. Amsel Greene collected errors and published them in a book which is called Pullet Surprises. A monomorphemic word may be subject to morphological parsing in the hypothetical ‘pullet surprise’-type analysis. The objectives of this paper are three-fold. First, when a compound-type idiom is decomposed into more than one word in the ‘pullet surprise’-type analysis, its figurative meaning disappears, which shows that it should be listed as a single figurative meaning in the lexicon. Second, when a compound in which a synonym is reduplicated is combined with another word to form a new compound, it may be essential or should not be used. Finally, a hypothetical ‘pullet surprise’ analysis shows that the bleeding and feeding effects of synonymous word reduplication should be markedly recognized in the course of language acquisition.

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