The document discusses two types of word formation: inflectional and derivational paradigms. It focuses on inflectional paradigms, which are sets of related words that share the same stem but differ in inflectional affixes. There are four types of inflectional paradigms discussed: noun, pronoun, verb, and comparable paradigms. Noun paradigms add inflectional affixes like -s, -'s, and -s' to change number or possession. Pronoun paradigms have fixed forms that are classified by grammatical properties like subject, object, and possession.

1. Inflectional paradigms
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Course Instructor: Ethar N. Jameel
University of Basra
College of Education for H. Scs.
English Department
Chapter Eleven

2. The derivational
and the
inflectional
paradigm
 The derivational paradigm ….. a set of related words with
the same base and different derivational affixes.
 Man manly, manhood, mannish, unman, unmanly,…
 Teach teacher teachable teachability teachableness,…..
 The inflectional paradigm……..a set of related words with
the same stem and different inflectional affixes.
 Man men man’s men’s
 Teach teaches teaching taught taught
 Teacher teachers teacher’s teachers’

3. Types of
inflectional
paradigms
 There are four inflectional paradigms:
 1- Noun paradigm
 2- Pronoun paradigm
 3-Verb paradigm
 4- Comparable paradigm

4. Noun Paradigm The stem pl sg ps pl ps
bird birds bird’s birds’
mouse mice Mouse’s Mice’s
worker workers Worker’s Workers’
1- Noun paradigm: stem(noun) +
-S pl
-S sg ps
-S pl ps

5. Pronoun Paradigm
 2- Pronoun paradigm: is a small and closed set of words with fixed
forms ( no stem and affix combination)
 The members of a pronoun paradigm are four. They are classified
according to ( subject, object, prenominal possessive, and substitutional
possessive )
subject object Prenominal
possessive
Substitutional
possessive
1st person(sg) I me my mine
1st person (pl) we us our ours
2nd person (sg & pl) you you your yours
3rd person sg M
3rd person sg F
3rd person sg N
he him his his
she her her hers
it it its its
3rd person (pl) they them their theirs
Interrogative
& relative pronouns
who whom whose whose