Inflectional Morpheme

An Inflectional Morpheme is a Bound Morpheme that ...

• AKA: Grammatical Morpheme, Function Morpheme.
• Context:
  • It can be applied to a Lexeme.
  • It does not change the meaning of the Lexeme.
  • Type
    • Pluralization Morpheme (Pluralisation).
• Example(s):
  • -s, as in dog ⇒ dogs.
• See: Derivational Morpheme.

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References

2004

• (Diab et al., 2004) ⇒ Mona Diab, Kadri Hacioglu, and Daniel Jurafsky. (2004). “Automatic Tagging of Arabic Text: From Raw Text to Base Phrase Chunks.” In: Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2004.
  • QUOTE: Morphological analysis may be characterized as the process of segmenting a surface word form into its component derivational and inflectional morphemes.

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