Inflectional affix

Derivational affix

1.

Inflectional affixes very often only add

a minute or delicate grammatical

meaning to the stem.

屈折词缀常常在词干后面添加一个微小的或微妙的语法意义。

Derivational affixes often change the

lexical meaning.

派生词缀常常改变词汇意义

2.

Inflectional affixes do not change the

Word class they attach to.屈折词缀不改变词类。

Derivational affixes might change the word class派生词缀可能改变词类

3.

Inflectional affixes are conditioned by

Nonsemantic linguistic factors outside the word they attach to but within the phrase or sentence.屈折词缀受到的限制是非语义性的语言因素，这一因素在它们所依附的词以外，但是在短语或句子之内。Eg. The boy likes to …

Likes就是由句子的主语决定的。

Derivational affixes are more often based on simple meaning

distinctions.派生词缀更多是根据简单的意义区别。例如，clever和cleverness之间的选择依赖于我们要谈论性质“clever”还是要谈论处于聪明的状态“cleverness”

4.

Inflectional affixes are mostly suffixes.屈折词缀绝大部分是后缀

Derivational affixes can be prefixes or suffixes.派生词缀可以是前缀也可以是后缀。

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