IGNOU CTE 102 2026 2027 - Discuss the differences between inflectional and derivational morpholo

Question

Discuss the differences between inflectional and derivational morphology.

20 Jul 2026

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Morphology is the branch of linguistics that studies the internal structure of words and the way they are formed. Two major types of morphology are inflectional morphology and derivational morphology. Although both involve the addition of affixes to a base or root word, they differ in their purpose, function, and effect on the meaning and grammatical category of words. Inflectional morphology deals with grammatical variations of a word without changing its core meaning or word class. Inflectional affixes express grammatical information such as tense, number, person, possession, comparison,

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