How is inflectional morphology different from derivational morphology discuss give examples
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Inflectional morphology is the study of the modification of words to fit into different grammatical contexts whereas the derivational morphology is the study of the formation of new words that differ in meaning from their bases.
i) Inflectional morphology is the study of processes that distinguish the forms of words in specific grammatical categories.
Derivational morphology is the study of the formation of new words that differ in the meaning from their bases.
ii) An inflectional morpheme is a suffix that is added to a word to assign a particular grammatical property to a word such as numbers, tense etc.
E.g., Dog as Dogs, Teach as Teaches, Clean as cleaned etc
A derivational morpheme is an affix we add to a word to create a new word.
E.g., Leaf as Leaflet, Pure as Impure, Help as Helper etc