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Nathan Sanders wrote:
> In article <4lj1vkF258ckU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Harlan Messinger <hmessinger.removethis@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > In your example, "Wag" would be the root (and perhaps a zero-derived
> > > stem, if inflectional affixes can be added to it alone), while "Wagen"
> > > is a stem.
> >
> > But "en" in "Wagen" isn't an affix. The fact that it reduces to "n" in
> > "Wagner" isn't different from the "y" in "city" changing to "ie" in
> > "cities", and the "y" certainly isn't an affix.
>
> Oops, sorry, I completely misunderstood your example. In that case,
> "Wag(e)n" is both a root and a suffix. "Wag" is nothing, unless is
> appears in another word without "(e)n".
Both a root and a stem.
You've left "base" out!
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