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affix

Morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word

EntityQ62155

Subclass of: morpheme

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In linguistics, an affix is a morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word or word form. The two main categories are derivational and inflectional affixes. Derivational affixes, such as un-, -ation, anti-, and pre-, introduce a semantic change to the word they are attached to. Inflectional affixes introduce a syntactic change, such as singular into plural, or present simple tense into present continuous or past tense by adding -ing or -ed to an English word. All of them are bound morphemes by definition; prefixes and suffixes may be separable affixes.

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40 statements · 25% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Said to be the same as: formative
Different from: affixoid
Studied by: morphology

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27 identifiers linking affix across the web's reference databases

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