ABSTRACT
In Unit 4, we noted that bases could be associated with one or more additional bound elements hanging round the edge of them. These extra elements are called AFFIXES, and they serve a number of different functions, both lexical and grammatical. Affixes are classified structurally by the positions they can occupy, so let’s look at the full range of positions that it is possible for them to occupy. In each instance, I’ll illustrate using only grammatical affixes whose position is defined in relation to a stem.
