[英语学习]词汇学powerpoint.ppt

root、stem、base A root is that part of a word form that remains when all inflectional and derivational affixes have been removed （张维友p.50）; A stem is that part of the word form which remains when all inflectional affixes have been removed（ibid.）. NB. 1. a free root used with bound morphemes can be termed “a stem”, as in “un-dress-ed, care-less-ness”.（读本 p24） 2. at the level of simple words, stem equals root as in “star”.（英词引论 p162；读本 p51 词形不变） 3. The stem, which may consist of two root morphemes as in “motherland”, belongs to the category of the compound word. 4. inf