E.     Affixes

Affixes is a bound morpheme that occurs before, within, or after a base morpheme. There are three kinds of affixes are prefix, affix and suffix.

1.      Prefix is a bound morpheme that occur before a base.

Example from prefix: Replay, impossible, preview, unlike, oppose, obstruct.

2.      Infix is a base morpheme that inserted within a word.

Example:

1.    Inserted within a word.

·      Hi zouse

·      Passerby

2.    Reduplacation

·      Big bag

·      Zig zag

3.    Proclitic

·      D’habitude

·      T’dance

4.    Partial

·      Oky-doky

·      Tiny-winy

5.    Internal change

·      Sing-sang-sung

·      Mouse-mice

·      Foot-feet

6.     Supplection

·      go – went- gone

3.      Suffixes are bound morphemes that occur after base. Example: failure, studying, grasier, worked.

F.     Inflectional Suffixes

INFLECTIONAL AFFIX	EXAMPLE	NAME
1.      {-S pl}	Dogs, mice, student, oxen	Noun plural
2.      {-S sg ps}	Boy’s,	Singular possessive
3.      {-S pl ps}	Boys’, men’s	Plural possessive
4.      {-S 3d}	Vacates, cries, eats, plays	Present third-person singular
5.      {-ING vb}	discussing, playing, eating	Present participle
6.      {-D pt}	Chewed,Worked,rode	Past tense
7.      {-D pp}	Eaten, swim,chewed	Past participle
8.      {-ER cp}	Bolder, longer, taller	Comperative
9.      {-EST sp}	Highest, longest, nearest	superlative

The inflectional suffixes from the derivational in the following ways, to which there are few exception:

1.      They do not change part of speech

2.      They come last in a word (suffixes)

3.      They match with all stem of a given part of speech

4.      They do not pile up, only one in ends

Examples: speaks, reading, written.