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Inflection is a one of the main types of morphological operations by which an affix is added to a word. An inflectional affix adds a ... Inflection FromGlottopedia Jumptonavigation Jumptosearch Inflectionisaoneofthemaintypesofmorphologicaloperationsbywhichanaffixisaddedtoaword.Aninflectionalaffixaddsaparticulargrammaticalfunctiontoawordwithoutchangingthecategoryofthatword,orevenleadingtoadifferentword.Wemaysaythatinflectedformsarejustvariantsofoneandthesameword.SomeexamplesofgrammaticalinformationthatcanbeencodedbyinflectionalmorphemesincludePhi-features(e.g.person,number,gender,case),mood,tense,andaspect. Termproperties Therelationaladjectiveisinflectional.Analternativespelling(confinedtoBritishEnglishandincreasinglyoutdated)isinflexion. Examples CountnounsinEnglishcanbepluralizedbyaddingtheinflectionalending-s(dog-dogs,noun-nouns).Thepluralformsdogsandnounsarevariantsofthebasenounsdogandnoun. Comments Traditionallyinflectionisdistinguishedfromderivation(thesecondtypeofmajormorphologicaloperation).Althoughitisnotpossibletodrawasharpboundarybetweenbothtypesofoperation,thereareatleasttwodifferences:(i)inflectionisnevercategory-changing,whilederivationoftencategorychanging,and(ii)inflectionisusuallyperipheraltoderivation.Somelinguists(e.g.Aronoff(1976),Anderson(1982),Perlmutter(1988))assumethatinflectionandderivationbelongtodifferentcomponentsofthegrammar.Thisviewisnotuncontroversialthough,sinceothers(e.g.Halle(1973),Kiparsky(1982))assumethatinflectionandderivationarereflexesofoneandthesameoperation,namelyaffixation. Seealso agreement concord Link UtrechtLexiconofLinguistics References Anderson,S.R.1982.Where'sMorphology?,LinguisticInquiry13,pp.571-612,MITPress,Cambridge,Mass. Aronoff,M.1976.WordFormationinGenerativeGrammar,MIT-press,Cambridge,Mass. Chomsky,N.1993.AMinimalistProgramforLinguisticTheory,MIToccasionalpapersinlinguistics,1-67.Reprintedin:Chomsky(1995). Chomsky,N.1955.TheLogicalStructureofLinguisticTheory,UniversityofChicagoPress,Chicago(1975). Halle,M.1973.ProlegomenatoaTheoryofWord-Formation,LinguisticInquiry4,pp.451-464 Haspelmath,M.andA.Sims.2010."Chapter5:InflectionandDerivation"inUnderstandingMophologySecondedition.Routledge. Kiparsky,P.1982.FromCyclicPhonologytoLexicalPhonology,in:Hulst,H.vanderandN.Smith(eds.)TheStructureofPhonologicalRepresentations(I),pp.131-175 Perlmutter,D.1988.TheSplit-morphologyHypothesis:evidencefromYiddish,in:Hammond,M.andM.Noonan(eds.)TheoreticalMorphology:ApproachesinModernLinguistics,Orlando,AcademicPress. Pollock,J.-Y.1989.Verbmovement,UniversalGrammar,andthestructureofIP,LinguisticInquiry20,pp.365-424. Otherlanguages GermanFlexion Retrievedfrom"http://glottopedia.org/index.php?title=Inflection&oldid=17701" Categories:EnDICTMorphology Navigationmenu Personaltools Login Namespaces PageDiscussion Variants Views ReadViewsourceViewhistory More Search Navigation MainPageAboutThematicareasFAQ Interaction HowtocontributeAccountregistrationGuidelinesCommunityportalCommunityforumHelpRecentchanges Tools WhatlinkshereRelatedchangesSpecialpagesPrintableversionPermanentlinkPageinformationCitethispage Thispagewaslasteditedon8February2021,at21:53. ContentisavailableunderAttribution-ShareAlike3.0unlessotherwisenoted. Privacypolicy AboutGlottopedia Disclaimers