Friday, October 05, 2018

Language, Its Structure and Use: Morphological analysis assignment (for MQuni; unit grade – Credit)

linguistics degree


inflectional morpheme: changes the grammatical form of the stem and morphosyntactic category and property (category, i.e., tense, number, person, comparison; property, i.e., past, present participle, plural, 3rd pers, comparative, superlative, etc.), e.g., win, won, wins, winning.
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derivational morpheme (affix: prefix, suffix [or circumfix enlighten , interfix speed-o-meter, infix abso⟨bloody⟩lutely] and dupilfix money~shmoney): contribute to the meaning of the lexeme (word), e.g., cute-ish.