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What are the major differences between derivational and inflectional affixes?

April 26, 2017affixes derivational differences inflectional

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What are the major differences between derivational and inflectional affixes?

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First, it’s worth saying that most linguists today consider this distinction as a piece of convenient descriptive terminology, without any fundamental theoretical status. Then we can point to the basic meanings of the terms: derivational affixes “derive” new words from old ones, while inflectional affixes “inflect” words for certain grammatical or semantic properties.