LING477 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Morpheme, Affix, Word Formation
11 Oct 2017
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How to determine the structure of a word. A new word of different meaning (happy unhappy) A new word of different category (happy (adj) happiness (noun)) An inflection affix does not change the root meaning and the category of the resulting word (happy happier happiest) What category of the stem the affix requires. What category of the resulting word the affix creates. Ex. re- is an affix in english. It is a prefix and it requires a verb stem, and creates a new verb meaning perform the action described by the verb stem once more" ex.
