Курс: Current perspectives on word-formation, Неделя: February 22: Morpheme-based approaches | DL 1

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- Select activity Morpheme-based approaches
  
  Morpheme-based approaches Файл
- Select activity Assignment 1
  
  Assignment 1 Задание
  
  Read pages 14–17 of Plag (2003) on inflection vs. derivation.
  
  Choose two of the following affixes (or any other interesting example), and using all the criteria discussed in Plag, show whether the affixes count as (more) inflectional or (more) derivational.
  
  Suggestions as to what affixes you can choose:
  
  a) re- (rewrite), or -ess (hostess), or -ment (resentment), or its equivalent in your mother tongue;
  
  b) a diminutive suffix;
  
  c) an adverb forming suffix (Czech -e/-ě or -y; English -ly; Spanish -mente etc.);
  
  d) Czech nej- (lepší 'better‘ → nejlepší 'best‘).
  
  So, for example, you have to choose two, so you can choose e.g. the English re- and the Czech nej-.
- Select activity Feedback on the first assignment
  
  Feedback on the first assignment Файл
- Select activity An example: the English -ly according to Plag
  
  An example: the English -ly according to Plag Файл
  
  Have a look at how Plag analyzes the English -ly, concluding that most of the criteria actually speak against classifying -ly as a derivaitonal suffix.