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Concept: inflectional affix
Definition
An inflectional affix is an affix that expresses an inflectional meaning.
SIL Glossary
inflectional affix
Quotation
"An inflectional construction is a construction in which an inflectional meaning (role, person, number, gender, tense, mood, evidentiality, polarity) is expressed by an affix or nonconcatenatively." (Haspelmath 2024: 65)
Defining concepts:
affix
inflectional meaning-category
Derived concepts:
lexeme
lexeme-stem
Related features:
Exponence of selected inflectional formatives
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WALS
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Inflectional synthesis of the verb
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WALS
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Prefixing vs. suffixing in inflectional morphology
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WALS
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The future tense
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WALS
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Are there verb-adjunct (aka light-verb) constructions?
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Grambank
)
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