LING 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Word Formation, Affix, Inflection
11 Apr 2016
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Most common process english is affixation (affix-stem) Suffixation can cause category of the stem to change (affix-suffix), ex. noun to verb, adjective to verb, noun to adjective. Derivation: type of affixation, that forms a word with a meaning different from base and/or different category (meanings can be related and still be distinct) Inflection: another word-formation process, change to indicate grammatical information, in many languages is affixation but not always. Learn 8 inflectional so know which is which. He wants to sleep, she eats at that restaurant. Meaning doesn"t change much after added (changes things like person, tense) They jumped at the chance, i cooked a big meal, you liked the movie. I have taken the book, she has worked on the assignment. 1: inflectional don"t change category of stems they attach to, derivational can change the category. 2: inflectional don"t change fundamental meaning of word, derivational affixes do change the meaning. Words are formed by compounding independent words.
