Morphology either refers to the mental system involved in the word formation process or to the branch of Linguistics that deals with words, their internal structure, and how they are formed. When it comes to the process of word formation, there are two possibilities to study such complex process, which are: Inflection and Derivation. It being understood that, match the second column based on the information provided in the first one, then check the correct answer.
( A ) INFLECTION ( B ) DERIVATION
( ) refers to the formation of new lexemes – words. ( ) refers to the grammatical contrasts and distinctions. ( ) a stem is considered to be a semantic core of a word. ( ) a root is considered to be a semantic core of a word.