LING 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Suppletion, Part Of Speech, Redneck
17 Nov 2015
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Inflectional affixes express grammatical functions and relations: languages vary widely with regard to how rich or poor an inflectional morphology they have. English has a quite impoverished inflection morphology, one with a very limited number of inflectional morphemes. Inflection vs derivation: the distinction between inflectional and derivational can be subtle, four criteria to distinguish between inflectional and derivational affixes, change in lexical category and/or meaning, relative order of markers (inflectional comes at end of word) Derivational affixes are generally closer to the end of the word: productivity. Except for cases of suppletion: semantic transparency and predictability, derivational affixes often apply only to a restricted set of bases, ize applies only to bases of latin origin not new-ize not lawful-ize not last-ize. Modern-ize legal-ize final-ize: semantic transparency, inflectional affixes systematically occur with the same meaning/effect, the semantic contribution of derivational affixes can be unpredictable or.
