Answer:
"One key difference is that inflectional morphology does not change the meaning of the word, while derivational morphology does."
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Explanation:
Inflectional morphology is the study of how a word goes through change when you add a vowel or make the word plural which doesn't change the meaning of the world all together but does change the numerical value of the word.
Common examples of inflectional morphology will be words such as pencils to pencils, bite to bites, cat to cats. Are all examples of inflectional morphology we don't change the meaning of the word but the numerical value when we are talking about cats, we are talking about more than one cat.
Derivational morphology is the study of how a word goes through change when change part of how the word is said, or the all-around meaning of the word we are talking about.
Common examples of derivational morphology will be words such as wonder to wonderful, agree to agreement, and joy to joyful. If we add/change a part of the word we are also changing the meaning of the word for example wonder has a complete different meaning than wonderful, which makes it apart of derivational morphology.
I would say there are many key differences between inflectional and derivational morphology. "One key difference is that inflectional morphology does not change the meaning of the word, while derivational morphology does." Inflectional morphology doesn't change the word itself only adds a vowel or a s, while morphology changes the complete word. Derivational morphology can create a complete opposite of a word while inflectional morphology cannot.
Hope this helps.
