INFLECTIONAL AFFIXES

In linguistic morphology, inflection (or inflexion) is a process of word formation[1] in which a word is modified to express different grammatical categories such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, mood, animacy, and definiteness. The inflection of verbs is called conjugation, and one can refer to the inflection of nouns, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, determiners, participles, prepositions and postpositions, numerals, articles, etc., as declension.

Idea particles are the fundamental radicals used while writing the characters it can be written in a reduced form or in its original form.

We can use the analogy of writing the vowels in hindi , so we have main vowels A(अ) ,i (इ) , u(उ) and when writing them we don't actually use the original vowels but simply use their indicators or so called reduced forms , Just as in case of K (क ) + i (इ ) = कि (ki) and similarly in mantrakshar when we use eye + water = tears /cry

character 1 character 2 combined character
K(क) i (इ) ki (कि )
  • Affixation
  • reduplication
    • tik-tok , kit-kat , pit-pot
  • alternation
  • suprasegmental variations
Affix Grammatical category Mark Part of speech
-s Number plural nouns
-'s/'/s Case genitive nouns and noun phrases, pronouns (marks independent genitive)
Affix Grammatical category Mark Part of speech
-self Case reflexive pronouns

As an example, even though both of the following sentences consist of the same words, the meaning is different:[1]

  • The dog chased a cat.
  • A cat chased the dog.

Hypothetically speaking, suppose English were a language with a more complex declension system in which cases were formed by adding the suffixes:

-no (for nominative singular), -ge (genitive), -da (dative), -ac (accusative), -lo (locative), -in (instrumental), -vo (vocative), -ab (ablative) The above sentence could be formed with any of the following word orders and would have the same meaning:[1]

  • The dogno chased a catac.
  • A catac chased the dogno.
  • Chased a catac the dogno.
Affix Grammatical category Mark Part of speech
-ing Aspect progressive verbs
-en/-ed Aspect perfect verbs
-ed/-t Tense past (simple) verbs
-s Person, number, aspect, tense 3rd person singular present indicative verbs
  • Present participle - ing
  • Past participle - ed
  • Finite verb forms:
    • Grammatical person
    • Grammatical number
    • Grammatical gender
    • Grammatical tense
    • Grammatical aspect
    • Grammatical mood
    • Grammatical voice
  • Non-finite verb forms.
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  • 2024/06/24 14:06
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