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Internalization
MORPHOLOGY: a process by which the
external argument of the base
becomes the internal argument of
the derived word. Internalization has two stages. First, the addition of a new
external argument, and then demotion of the
old external argument to internal position.
EXAMPLE: the English adjective modern has the external
argument theme (the factory is modern). If the verbal suffix -ize
is added, this theme argument becomes the internal argument due to the fact that
-ize itself supplies the external argument agent (they modernized
the factory).
LIT. | Di Sciullo, A. M. and E. Williams (1987) Spencer, A. (1991) Williams, E. (1981b) |