Applied English for Linguistics -- Summer 2009- J. E. Seibert -- Tokyo International University of America
verb |
noun |
adjective |
adverb |
| derive | derivation | derivational | ---------- |
| inflect | inflection | inflectional | ---------- |
| ---------- | ---------- | semantic | semantically |
| ---------- | lexicon | lexical | ---------- |
| affix | affix, affixation | ---------- | ---------- |
| affixation | the process of adding affixes to words |
| semantic content | meaning |
| class of base | the lexical category a base belongs to |
| derivation | a kind of affixation that (1) changes the word to a different lexical category, or (2) changes the meaning of the word |
| inflection | the process of changing a word's form to show grammatical information (for example: plural, past tense, comparison, etc.) |
| Class I derivational affixes | cause phonological change in the base (for example:(1) modern to modernization; or (2) public to publicize: the "c" changes from /k/ to /s/ |
| Class II derivational affixes | do NOT cause a phonological change when the affix is added (example: hair to hairless -- phonologically hair stays the same) |