Comments on: Building an Institutional Memory: Woodward

By: Scotty

Scotty — Tue, 27 May 2008 12:38:36 +0000

“2004 FIRST YEAR DIVISION
Champion – Highland Park AD (Matt Andrews & D)
Runner Up – Chattahoochee AS (Garret Abelkop & S)”

Garret was a frosh on the 2001-02 WMD topic and got walked over in the semis of woodward (he debated with John Warden)

By: michael mangus

michael mangus — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:39:10 +0000

er, that last line should be ‘zero-derivation’ not ‘zero-formation’

By: michael mangus

michael mangus — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:34:08 +0000

zero derivation, at least in my experience, just refers to converting a lexical item to a new lexical class. in this case, an inflectional affix has been applied to the new verb form (semi + ing) but the existence of that verb in the lexicon indicates that zero derivation has taken place. if -ing was a derivational, rather than inflectional, affix you would have a point (that would be an example of derivation and not word formation). as far as i know, ’semi-ing,’ ’semi-ed,’ etc are all just inflected forms of the same lexeme, semi (v), derived by zero-formation (or “conversion”) from semi (n).

By: Sohail

Sohail — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:20:31 +0000

Mangus, can you explain that concept a bit more. I thought a zero derivation had to be the same as the word like (turn as a noun and as a verb). So wouldn’t semi-ing not be a zero derivation? (I have no real background in linguistics but I like the field and perhaps will major in it).

Thanks!

By: michael mangus

michael mangus — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:37:22 +0000

zero derivation is one of the best types of word formation. get with the morphosyntactic program bietz.

By: bietz

bietz — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:09:39 +0000

what does semi-ing mean?

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:07:56 +0000

I should also add Eric Palmer who reached quarters of TOC after only 2 years of debate experience and won some other shit.

By: Navot

Navot — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:54:03 +0000

McKay debated all four years.

By: Paras Kumar

Paras Kumar — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:31:58 +0000

Didnt John McKay start really late as well? and he ended up semi-ing at the TOC

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:26:33 +0000

anon:

Last year 3/4 TOC semifinalists started their careers pretty late. Matt Aks began debate as a sophomore, Patrick Diehl switched from policy to ld in either his sophomore or junior year (I know he went JV at Glenbrooks his junior year), and I think that David McGough did something similar.

There are probably other cases that I’m neglecting, these just seem to be the most recent.