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Morphology - Lesson 3 - Inflectional and derivational morphemes

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Derivation is the process of creating a new word out of an old word. Derivation may help inflection in some cases but not vice versa.
Inflection changes the lexeme but they do not change the category used, inflection is used to mark the role of the lexeme in a particular sentence.

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1. Inflection is found further from the base than derivation.
2. Inflectional morphemes share the same concept as the base, derivational forms do not.
3. Inflection is semantically more regular than derivation.

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It is determined by the syntactic context.

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It is determined by the information a speaker wiches to convey.

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Haspelmath (2002) indicates that inflection can be obligatory but derivation not.
Ex of inflection:
sing / sings/ sang//sung.

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This criteria indicates a CHANGE OF CATEGORY on the word we are modifying.

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It is used to define terms at the beginning, inflection DOES NOT indicate a change of category.

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When inflections are added to words, they maintain their original meaning and grammatical categories.

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Add grammatical information to a word.

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Refers to an affix that indicates a change of grammatical category.

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Descriptive linguistic and traditional grammar

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Descriptive linguistic and traditional grammar

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Changing the formation of a word by changing the base of the word or adding affixes is the major source of new words.

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It is the process to create new lexical items, this may occur as prefixes, suffixes, or infixes.