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Ali.h Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Derivation or inflection

Happy which is an adjective when affixing ‘un’ to it becomes unhappy, this is still an adjective, the word class did not change only the meaning did, so is this type of change categorized as "derivation" or "inflection"?
  

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Neither term is right. It's called affixation since un is an affix. CB

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  • Neither term is right.
  • It's called affixation since un is an affix.
  • CB
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Neither term is right. It's called affixation since un is an affix.

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