LING 110g Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Consonant Cluster, Morphological Derivation, Jabberwocky
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Inflectional morphology = change the sound, not the meaning at all. **a derivational affix must change the meaning or else it is an inflectional affix. I am proofreading (-ing , same meaning, inflectional) I think proofreading is cool (-ing, new meaning, derivational) It can be used as a stem for a derivational affix. A compound is a word. (airtightly, rock solid, airtightness, rock solidness) A compound can be used also as a stem for an inflectional affix. Portmanteau (kitchen towel racks, i am proofreading, bloodthirster) Pluot, from plum and apricot; brexit, from britain and exit; mathlete, from math and athlete. These are combinations of words to create new words. In the first and last stanza of jabberwocky, all the words and morphemes we recognize are function words, inflectional suffixes and perhaps a derivational suffix: The plural -s and allomorph of the past tense -ed. Each affixation (i. e. attachment of an affix to a stem) above is consistent with the.
