Underlying shape
In phonology, the underlying form describes the phonological form of a lexeme as it exists before a phonological rule is applied. The morphophonology assumes that always exists an underlying form, from which the application of general phonological rules lexical alternations are generated.
example
- For the German word Haus (genitive of Haus ) the underlying form is / haʊz /.
- In lemmatization , the inflected ending of the last element is sometimes added to the underlying form, as is the case with AGs for stock corporations
See also : metaphysics (Aristotle) , allomorph
swell
- Helmut Glück (Ed.): Metzler-Lexikon Sprach , 2000