INFLECTION
Thursday, November 8, 2007
		 INFLECTION = the      process by which affixes combine with roots to indicate basic grammatical      categories such as tense or plurality (e.g. in 'cat-s', 'talk-ed', '-s' an      d'-ed' are inflectional suffixes).  Inflection is viewed as the process      of adding very general meanings to existing words, not as the creation of      new words.
    
    
    
	
	  Labels: Morphology
