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Which of the following is NOT a function of suffixes?
Which of the following is NOT a function of suffixes?
- Carrying lexical information
- Changing the grammatical properties of a word
- Indicating the tense of a verb (correct)
- Forming the conjugation of verbs
What is the difference between inflectional and derivational/lexical suffixes?
What is the difference between inflectional and derivational/lexical suffixes?
- Inflectional suffixes change the grammatical properties of a word, while derivational/lexical suffixes change its meaning (correct)
- Inflectional suffixes are used to form verb conjugations, while derivational/lexical suffixes are used for case endings
- Inflectional suffixes are used in Semitic languages, while derivational/lexical suffixes are used in Indo-European languages
- Inflectional suffixes change the meaning of a word, while derivational/lexical suffixes change its grammatical properties
What is a suffixoid?
What is a suffixoid?
- A word-final segment that is a bound morpheme
- A word-final segment that is a free morpheme
- A word-final segment that is between a free morpheme and a bound morpheme (correct)
- A word-final segment that is not a morpheme
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