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Inflection changes the basic lexical content of a word, while derivation expresses syntactic properties.
Inflection expresses syntactic properties such as person, number, gender, and tense, while derivation changes semantic and grammatical properties of a word (correct)
Inflection and derivation are the same thing.
Inflection and derivation are both used to create compound words.

The process of assigning Part of Speech categories to every token in a text. (A) Signup and view all the answers

The smallest unit of language that carries meaning. (C) Signup and view all the answers

The study of how words combine to form phrases, clauses, and sentences. (B) Signup and view all the answers

To analyze sentence structure (A) Signup and view all the answers

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Morphemes are the smallest units of language that carry meaning.
Words are composed of free and bound morphemes.
Part of speech (PoS) categorizes words into open and closed classes.
Root stem or base refers to the basic lexical content of a word.
Inflection expresses syntactic properties such as person, number, gender, and tense.
Derivation changes semantic and grammatical properties of a word.
Compounding involves combining two or more words to form a new one.
Part of speech tagging assigns PoS categories to every token in a text.
Syntax refers to the study of how words combine to form phrases, clauses, and sentences.
Dependency and constituency parsers are used to analyze sentence structure.