Affix

From UNLwiki
Revision as of 13:32, 20 May 2010 by imported>Martins
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
Jump to navigationJump to search

An affix is a morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word. Affixes may be derivational, like English -ness and pre-, or inflectional, like English plural -s and past tense -ed. They are bound morphemes by definition, and are further classified according to their position: beginning (prefixation), the middle (infixation) or the end (suffixation).