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Derivation & inflection
1.
2. FIND WORD WHICH HAS AS MANY
MORPHEMES AS POSSIBLE
Pseudoantidisestablishmentarianism: False
opposition to the separation of church and of the
state.
Pseudo-: fa ls e
Anti-: a g a ins t
Dis-: no t
Establish:
-Ment: the a c tio n/p ro c e s s o f …
-Arian: p e rs o n
-Ism: be lie f…
4. STRUCTURE OF WORD
No more than
1 prefix
(which is
always
derrivational)
No more than 1
inflectional
suffix; usually
comes last in
the word
There may be
more than 1
derrivational
suffixes
5. Examples:
-Tra ns p o rte rs
tra ns : prefix (across, through, beyond)
p o rt: bound base (carry)
e r: derrivational suffix (person)
s : inflectional suffix (plural)
-Inte rna tio na liz e d
na tio n: free base
inte r: prefix (among, between)
a l: derivational suffix (belong to)
iz e : derivational suffix (make)
e d : inflectional suffix (past/past participle)
-Unve rba liz e d
-Find ing s
6. DERIVATION
The formation of new words by adding affixes (class
changing or class maintaining) to words or morphemes
Base(root) + derivational affix(es) New derived word
Derivational paradigm:
A set of related words composed of the same base
morpheme and all the derivational affixes that can go
with this base
Ex: child
, childhood, childlike, childish, childishness,
childishly, childless, childlessness
7. Inflection
The process of adding an affix ( suffix) to a word to
change its form according to grammar rules.
Stem + inflectional suffix inflected forms of one
and the same word
Inflectional paradigm:
A set of related words composed of the same stem
and all the inflectional suffixes that can go with this
stem.
Ex: child , children, child’s, children’s
9. Analyse these words:
Unfrie nd line s s
Info rm a lity
How are they formed? Which affixes
are added first to the base…?
The process of adding affixes to
make new words
11. WORD IMMEDIATE CCOONNSSTTIITTUUEENNTTSS ((IICC))
To analyse the structure of a word, we must
base on its hierarchical constituents (which
means that a constituent of a word can be a
constituent of another constituent of that
word) .
What are IC’s?
Any of the 2 meaningful parts forming a
larger linguistic unit.
12. WORD IMMEDIATE CCOONNSSTTIITTUUEENNTTSS
How to divide a word into IC’s?
The first cut is b/w the inflectional suffix (if
any) and the rest of the word.
The IC’s should be free forms, having
meaning on their own.
The meaning of the IC’s should be related to
the meaning of the word
13. WORD IMMEDIATE CONSTITUENTS/ EEXXAAMMPPLLEESS
Discover (v): to find or learn sth new…
discover * discover
dis cover discov er(person who…)
(not) (put sth on sth to protect it)
* discover * discover
dis cover disc over
(not) cov er (CD) (above; across)