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Inflection & Derivation

A topic within Morphology & Syntax, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Linguistics & Language.

Reading on Inflection & Derivation

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Paper1982

Where's Morphology?

Stephen R. Anderson

Argues inflection is governed by rules that refer to syntactic context and so belongs with syntax, while derivation builds new lexical items and belongs with the lexicon, so morphology is not a single unified component.

link checked 17 Sept 2026

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