LINA01H3 Lecture 7: Lecture 7 Notes

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Derivation is a morphological process by which a new and different word is created from an existing base by the addition of an affix. Inflection is a morphological process by which a word is modified to indicate grammatical information of various sorts. Derivation: major change to the meaning of the word: happy -> unhappy, sing -> singer. Adds certain details: book -> books, play -> played. Derivation: may be a change in lexical category: happy (a)-> happiness (n, happy (a)-> unhappy (a) Inflection: lexical category does not change: book -> books (n) Semantic drift: words formed by derivation may develop a meaning that is not transparently predictable from the component morphemes: sheepish: (i) sheep-like (rare) (ii) bashful. Inflection: inflected forms of words almost never develop an idiosyncratic meaning. Derivation: creates separate lexical items (often with idiosyncratic meaning) that are listed independent of their base in speakers" mental dictionary (or lexicon")

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