Morphology class
Summary
derivational affixes and example
Derivational
is the process of creating a new word out of one or more old words, either by
adding a prefix or by compounding.
1a Derivational
into noun
Sometime
the presence of a derivational affix
cause a major grammatical change, in other cases the change caused by
derivational suffix may be minor. Beside can change meaning and change word
class, derivational suffix is used to change a concrete noun into an abstract
noun. Example, -ship -friendship,
leadhership,
Derivational
prefixes do not normally after the word class of the base word; that is prefix
is added to noun to form a new noun with
a different meaning, example:
·
Out + patient = outpatient
·
Ex + wife = exwife
·
Sub + ground = subground
Derivational
noun suffixes : -acy, -age, -an, -al, -ian, -ance, -ancy, -ant, -ary, -ate,
-ation, -dom, -er, -ess, -ful, -hood, -ing, -ive, -ment, -ness, -or, -ory,
-ship, -th, -y. Examples:
Ø Happy
(adj) + ness = happyness (noun).
Ø King
(noun) + dom = kingdom (noun).
Ø Child
+ hood = clildhood
Ø Govern
+ ment = goverment
·
Changes
noun to other word classes
-ity :
purity, equality, ferocity, sensitivity
-ness : goodness, tallness, fierceness, sensitiveness
-ism : radicalism, conservatism
·
Changes verb to noun
-ance, -ence : performance, ignorance, reference, convergence
-ment :
announcement, commitment, development, engagement
-ing :
painting, singing, building, ignoring
-ion :
denunciation, commission, organisation, confusion
-al :
refusal, arrival, referral, committal
-er :
painter, singer, organiser, grinder
·
Change adjective to adjective
Eatable = uneatable edible =
inedible
Readable = unreadable legible = illegible
Lawful = unlawful legal =
illegal
Touchable =
untouchable tangible =
intangible
·
Changes verb to adjective
-able ‘able to be Xed’ : breakable, readable, reliable, watchable
-ent, -ant ‘tending to X’ : repellent, expectant, conversant
-ive ‘tending to X’ : repulsive, explosive, speculative
-ful : e.g. joyful,
hopeful, helpful, meaningful
-less : e.g.
joyless, hopeless, helpless, meaningless
-al :e.g.
original, normal, personal, national
-ish :
e.g. boyish, loutish, waspish, selfish
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