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    Inflectional vs. Derivational Morphemes

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    This document discusses the differences between inflectional and derivational morphemes. [1] Inflectional morphemes are suffixes that are added to words to indicate properties like number, tense, or comparison without changing the word's grammatical category. [2] Derivational morphemes can be prefixes, suffixes, or infixes that often change a word's part of speech and can occur multiple times per word. [3] Key factors in determining if a morpheme is inflectional or derivational include whether it changes the part of speech, is at the beginning of a word, or is followed by an inflectional morpheme.

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    This document discusses the differences between inflectional and derivational morphemes. [1] Inflectional morphemes are suffixes that are added to words to indicate properties like number, tense, or comparison without changing the word's grammatical category. [2] Derivational morphemes can be prefixes, suffixes, or infixes that often change a word's part of speech and can occur multiple times per word. [3] Key factors in determining if a morpheme is inflectional or derivational include whether it changes the part of speech, is at the beginning of a word, or is followed by an inflectional morpheme.

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    This document discusses the differences between inflectional and derivational morphemes. [1] Inflectional morphemes are suffixes that are added to words to indicate properties like number, tense, or comparison without changing the word's grammatical category. [2] Derivational morphemes can be prefixes, suffixes, or infixes that often change a word's part of speech and can occur multiple times per word. [3] Key factors in determining if a morpheme is inflectional or derivational include whether it changes the part of speech, is at the beginning of a word, or is followed by an inflectional morpheme.

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    This document discusses the differences between inflectional and derivational morphemes. [1] Inflectional morphemes are suffixes that are added to words to indicate properties like number, tense, or comparison without changing the word's grammatical category. [2] Derivational morphemes can be prefixes, suffixes, or infixes that often change a word's part of speech and can occur multiple times per word. [3] Key factors in determining if a morpheme is inflectional or derivational include whether it changes the part of speech, is at the beginning of a word, or is followed by an inflectional morpheme.

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    Inflectional vs.

    Derivational Morphemes Handout


    Ling 201

    Inflectional

    ⋅ An inflectional morpheme is added to a noun, verb, adjective or adverb to assign a


    particular grammatical property to that word such as: tense, number, possession, or
    comparison.
    ⋅ Examples of inflectional morphemes are:

    o Plural: -s, -z, -iz


    Like in: cats, horses, dogs
    o Tense: -d, -t, -id, -ing
    Like in: stopped, running, stirred, waited
    o Possession: -‘s
    Like in: Alex’s
    o Comparison: -er, -en
    Like in: greater, heighten
    *note that –er is also a derivational morpheme so don’t mix them up!!

    ⋅ These do do not change the essential meaning or the grammatical category of a word.
    Adjectives stay adjectives, nouns remain nouns, and verbs stay verbs.
    ⋅ In English, all inflectional morphemes are suffixes (i.e. they all only attach to the end of
    words).
    ⋅ There can only be one inflectional morpheme per word

    Derivational

    ⋅ Derivational morphemes tend to change the grammatical category of a word but not
    always!
    ⋅ There can be multiple derivational morphemes per word and they can be prefixes, affixes,
    or suffixes. For example, the word “transformation” contains two derivational
    morphemes: trans (prefix) -form (root) -ation (suffix)
    ⋅ Some examples of derivational morphemes are:

    o -ful like in ‘beautiful’ => beauty (N) + ful (A) = beautiful (A)
    o -able like in ‘moldable’ => mold (V) + able (A) = moldable (A)
    o -er like in ‘singer’ => sing (V) + er (N) = singer (N)
    o -nes like in ‘happiness’ => happy (A) + nes (N) = happiness (N)
    o -ify like in ‘classify’ => class (N) + ify (V) = classify (V)

    Determining Derivational vs. Inflectional Morphemes

    Derivational

    ⋅ If it changes the part of speech, it must be derivational.


    ⋅ If it is at the beginning of a word, it must be derivational
    Inflectional vs. Derivational Morphemes Handout
    Ling 201
    ⋅ If it is followed by one of the inflectional morphemes listed above, it must be
    derivational.
    ⋅ If there is an inflectional morpheme, then every other morpheme must be derivational
    (since only one inflectional morpheme is allowed per word).

    Inflectional

    ⋅ If it adds a particular grammatical property like tense, number, possession, or


    comparison, it must be inflectional
    ⋅ This is related to productivity: if it is adding a grammatical property, it is productive.

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