Derivational Prefixes

MEG-04: ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE

ASSIGNMENT

Programme: MEG

Ast code: MEG-04/TMA/2016-17

Max. Marks: 100

i.             Derivational Prefixes

There is a small set of affixes in English which are attached at the beginning of a stem to modify its meaning. Some well-known examples are the negative prefixes un-,in-, and dis-. But negation is not the only modification of meaning the prefixes are used for.

Unlike most suffixes, the prefixes do not affect the grammatical category of the stem at all. So the grammar-based system is of no use. The change in meaning at least tells us exactly how the resulting word differs in meaning form the stem.

Here are some of the ways in which the prefixes modify the meaning of stem:

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