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262:. It's not that there are two senses of "suffix", or that the community consensus has anything to do. A suffix is a bound morpheme that is added to the end of a word, period. Whether it's inflectional or derivational is not part of the definition. "Ending" suggests derivation because that's how it's taught in schools. Inflectional endings tend to be grouped in paradigms (conjugation or declension tables) and set apart. -- 81: 71: 53: 22: 224:, while listing "-ing" (which I would call an "ending"), includes neither "-s" nor "-ed," which would arguably be two of the very most common suffixes in the English language; I think this is because many people know intuitively that there is a big difference between an "ending" like "-s" and a suffix like "-ness." 386:
I am afraid the example in "For another example, the root of the English verb form destabilized is stabil-, a form of stable that does not occur alone; the stem is deĀ·stabilĀ·ize, which includes the derivational affixes de- and -ize, but not the inflectional past tense suffix -(e)d." might be a bit
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In my defense, I realize now that there is a narrow sense and a broad sense of "suffix." Just as one could claim that a "lion" is distinct from a "cat" when using "cat" in a narrow sense, someone else could say that they're all "cats" and the distinction is between "great cats" and "domesticated
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I will yield if the community consensus is that any letters added to the end of a word qualify as a suffix, although I doubt that any list of Latin suffixes would include "-is" as a third declension genitive singular and "-amus" as first conjugation first person plural present. That is a HOE!
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I made a start with the definition and English examples (could add Spanish, some Japanese, but it's rather clear as it is). Someone with a clue should write about IE verb stems, which look like a completely different thing to me (agglutinative inflection rather than derivation). --
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So I think the definition in the article needs some revising. It's not necessarily the part of the word that doesn't change, but rather the part of the word from which all inflected forms can be inferred.
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There are languages in which every part of the word can change due to inflection or suffixation, yet it is still sensible to speak of a stem. For example, the Northern Sami verb
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article does, noting that affixes "may be derivational, like English -ness and pre-, or inflectional, like English plural -s and past tense -ed." And yet, the article
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I don't see a problem with it. The two concepts are very closely related, a comparison is appropriate, and if you moved the content to
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This article has quite compared stem and root in the introduction. The content that related to root, should be split out into
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is constant throughout the inflection, everything else is subject to change. But the stem of this verb is definitely
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include inflectional suffixes, unless a clarification is made somewhere. Either that, or rename it to
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article. But I am happy to see that most of what I have contributed in this article has remained. ā€”
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Closely related, yes, but this article conflates the two concepts on a seemingly random basis. --
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or removed. However others in this article, should stay.
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