Inflection In English Language

INTRODUCTION

This assignment is written to purely focus on an important aspect in morphology. In discussing of the many aspects in morphology especially how they contribute to what English language is today, inflection is understood by many to have a major role in setting up established grammatical functions into the overall word structure. Although many grasp hold of using inflection into their folds producing rhetoric word structure, not many truly understand how inflection came to be, the structure of inflection, and how inflection brings “relatedness” among words by saying that it shares a common base and creates a new word out of the base by adding, such as, [+ Plural]. It is recognizable that inflection is not alone in this contribution

Lexeme contains meaning and has its role in the grammatical function. Its grammatical function, for example, creates a new word out of a base such as the given base dance, by syntactic combinations into which adding suffixes into the given base as either dances, dancing, danced, or dancer, according to the context. The word given is taken into account as two units: one being as a unit of form and another as a unit of grammatical analysis. These two units defining the word or lexeme contribute to its

Agreement properties deals with the nature of a word and how it is related to other items in a syntactic structure by paradigmatic relation. This agreement properties take into account of Noun Phrase in which the determiners and the noun. For example, the girls dance gracefully and the boy dances gracefully, the difference between the two verbs shown dance and dances show agreement. iii. Phrasal properties deals with the realization of a word within a larger constituents of a phrase in a syntactic structure. The word is only realized in which it constitutes only part of the structure. These properties are often known as clitic, a different type of bound morpheme. For example, the President of America’s love, in which the –s’ indicates the meaning of President’s love placing on America. iv. Inherent properties deals with the characteristic of the individual words to the agreement rules. These properties include the following aspects: tense, gender and number in which are responsible for the individual word to modify accordingly in order to operate