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Contents
1. Introduction on Morphology
2. Inflection
2.1 What is Inflectional Morphology?
2.2 Grammatical Categories
2.3 The Inflected Word Classes
2.3.1 Nouns and Verbs
2.3.2 Adjectives and Numerals
2.4 Irregularities of Inflection
2.4.1 Suppletition and Portmanteau Morphemes
2.4.2 Zero-Allomorphs and Vowel Change
3. Derivation
3.1 What is Derivation?
3.2 Derivation via Affixation
3.4 Derivation without Affixation
4. Inflection versus Derivation
4.1 Distinctions
4.1.1 Stem versus Base
4.1.2 Change of the Lexical Meaning
4.1.3 Syntactical versus Lexical Function
4.1.4 “Listedness”
4.1.5 The Position of Derivational and Inflectional Affixes
4.1.6 The Number of Affixes, Limitations and Frequency
4.2 Similarities
4.2.1 Roots
4.2.2 Suffixes
4.2.3 Irregularities
4.2.4 Inherent and Contextual Inflection versus Derivation
5. Conclusion
6. List of Sources
- Quote paper
- Juliane Heß (Author), 2009, English Morphology: Inflection versus Derivation, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/177586
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I think you should also note that the -ed and -ing endings can also function as adjectives (past and present participles) and nouns (gerunds).
When -er is used noncomparatively as in a person who sings (singer) and -ing as in showing (as in a house showing) they function as nouns. Does this mean that -er and -ing can be derivational endings that change meaning?
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