A Word and its Form Inflection

Arranged to fulfill the course assignment Morphology/Sintax

Lecturer : Merliyani Putri Anggraini, M.Pd

Presented by Group 3

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ENGLISH EDUCATION
TARBIYAH FACULTY AND TEACHER TRAINING
STATE UNIVERSITY OF RADEN INTAN LAMPUNG
2018
 TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE............................................................................................... i

TABLE OF CONTENTS............................................................................. ii

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.................................................................
A. KI
B. KDI
C. H

CHAPTER II. DISCUSSION......................................................................

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CHAPTER III. CONCLUSION...................................................................

REFERENCES.............................................................................................

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 CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

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 CHAPTER II

DISCUSSION

A. Definition Inflectional

B. Words and grammar: lexemes, word forms and grammatical word

Words that do not have to be listed because they are merely grammatically
conditioned variants of a word that is more basic, in some sense and which itself
may or may not be listed, depending on whether its meaning is predictable or not.
By way of illustrating the notions ‘more basic’ and ‘grammatically conditioned
variant’, let us consider the words performs, performed and performance :
(1) This pianist performs in the local hall every week.
(2) Mary told us that this pianist performed in the local hall every week.
(3) The performance last week was particularly impressive.

All these words contain a suffix: perform-s, perform-ed, and perform-ance.

However, the suffixes -s and -ed are dependent on the grammatical context in a
way that the suffix -ance is not.
 the reason why the verb perform has an -s suffix is that the subject of the verb
(the noun phrase denoting the person doing the performing) is singular (this
pianist), not plural (these pianists).
 the aspect of the grammatical context that is relevant to the suffix -ed on
performed is the fact that the verb told is in the past tense (that is, it refers to a
past event, namely an earlier conversation with Mary).
 on the other hand, there is no grammatical factor that requires the presence of -
ance on performance. The most one can say is that, in the context where
performance occurs, one expects to find a noun rather than a verb such as
perform.
We can describe the difference between performance on the one hand and
performs and performed on the other by saying that the latter pair are

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grammatically conditioned variant forms of the verb perform, whereas
performance is not a variant form of the verb, but rather a noun derived from it.

C. Regular and irregular inflection

I said that one does not have to list performs and performed alongside perform, or
pianists alongside pianist, because they are merely grammatically conditioned variants of
one basic word – of one lexeme, in fact. But it is not correct to say that dictionaries never
have anything to say about inflectional morphology.
This is because there are two reasons why a word form such as pianists does not have to be
listed, and these reasons are independent. The first is that, once we know that an English word
is a noun denoting a kind of thing that can be counted