Abstract
According to Booij (1995) it is necessary to distinguish between two types of inflection in order to account for the fact that some inflectional forms may serve as the input to derivational rules. The first type, which he refers to as ‘inherent inflection’ is not required by the syntactic context (although it does have syntactic relevance) and sometimes involves semantic change. It includes categories such as noun number, the comparative and superlative degree of adjectives, participles, tense and aspect of verbs etc. The second type, ‘contextual inflection’, reflects aspects of syntactic structure and includes categories such as agreement (e.g. between subject and verb, between noun and adjective) and case marking. Booij states that only inherent inflection may feed derivation and gives a variety of examples from modern standard Dutch to illustrate his point.
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Many thanks to Dr Jon West, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, for his helpful comments.
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Chapman, C. (1996). Perceptual salience and affix order: noun plurals as input to word formation. In: Booij, G., van Marle, J. (eds) Yearbook of Morphology 1995. Yearbook of Morphology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3716-6_10
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