[General] Q: English Morphology, Root (Base), Affixes (prefix and suffix)??

[Sweden2011]

Hi,

I am from Sweden, and my name is Erik, and I am trying to learn English Morphology, so
here I have two word(s):

'Irreversible' = Ir-re-vers-ible = prefix + prefix + root + suffix

'Preoperational' = Pre-oper-ation-al = prefix + root + suffix + suffix

I am not sure if they are correct, and I am not sure of how I shall describe the affixes, i.e.
Are they derivational or inflectional? What meaning do they have or what function do they perform?

Any help is appreciated, thank you very much, I love the English language and America.

Best regards,
Erik from Sweden

 

[Sweden2011]

Please any English Native speakers out there??

 

[5jj]

Please any English Native speakers out there??

Quite a few of us, but we do this in our free time. Please don't become impatient after14 minutes.

 

[Sweden2011]

Sorry, I apologize. But can you folks help me, I am trying to learn more Morphology. Thanks!

 

[Sweden2011]

Quite a few of us, but we do this in our free time. Please don't become impatient after14 minutes.

@5jj: Can you explain this? I mean the information I wrote in my first post (entry)?
Please.

 

[5jj]

You would do better to wait for somebody who remembers more about morphology than I. I play with syntax and phonetics.

However, I'll start you off. There are no inflectional affixes in your words. You might find these links helpful:

Inflection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Derivation (linguistics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Sweden2011]

You would do better to wait for somebody who remembers more about morphology than I. I play with syntax and phonetics.

However, I'll start you off. There are no inflectional affixes in your words. You might find these links helpful:

How do you know that there are no inflectional affixes?

 

[5jj]

Did you have a look at the links I provided?

 

[Sweden2011]

Did you have a look at the links I provided?

Of course I did, but I am still wondering how you know that?
What makes you conclude and say, it's this and not that?

I want to know for sure, that is why I am asking .

 

[5jj]

Of course I did, but I am still wondering how you know that?

Hey - I read the articles.

I did tell you - You would do better to wait for somebody who remembers more about morphology than I. I play with syntax and phonetics.

While you are waiting, try re-reading the articles. They made sense to me.

 

[Tdol]

How do you know that there are no inflectional affixes?

As I understand it, inflectional affixes give grammatical information like number, case, tense, aspect, etc, which the ones in your words do not. If I change the verb operate to operates or operated, it is inflection- the same word, but marked for the third person singular or the past tense/past participle (grammatical information). But changing operation to operational is straight derivation- forming a new word, an adjective from a noun.