Geert Booij divided this process into “inherent” and “contextual” forms. A periphrastic construction mimics the result of this process. The question of whether “n’t” (“n-apostrophe-t”) should be considered a contracted form of the word “not” is discussed in a paper by Zwicky and Pullum that contrasts morphemes created by this process with clitics. This process maintains meaning compositionality and is typically expressed at the (*) periphery of words. Unlike most of the world, English adjectives have markers for this process of comparative or superlative degree. This type of morphology, which is contrasted with one that can change word-class of the base, is exemplified by adding “-s” to create plural words. For 10 points, name this process contrasted with derivation, in which words are modified to alter grammatical categories. ■END■
ANSWER: inflection [accept word forms like inflect or inflectional; accept inflectional morphology; accept affixation, suffixation, pluralization, conjugation, or declension]
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