Talk:Inflectional morphology

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where can I find a list of english inflectional morphemes or affixes?

-ed, -ing, -s (the latter for both plural on nouns and third present singular on verbs). Some of these have alternative spellings, which may or may not correspond to allomorphs in the spoken language. E.g. the -s suffix shows up as -es after certain consonants, and sometimes vowels: 'bushes', 'tries' (notice the allomorphy in the stem: 'try' --> 'tri').

Some would consider -en to be an additional affix, as in 'broken'; however, it is spelled -ed on most verbs.

One might also consider the possessive apostrophe-s to be an inflectional affix, although it is really a clitic (as are the contracted forms of many auxiliary verbs, like apostrophe-ll in "I'll go"). Mcswell 12:15, 19 March 2007 (UTC)