Points for discussion

1. Illustrate the morphotactic construction rules given above.
2. What are the rules of composition for words, inflectional stems, derivational stems, compounds in German?
3. Find examples for each of the morphotactic categories described above.
4. Is inflection recursive?
5. Is derivation recursive?
6. Show that compounding is recursive.
7. Provide examples of the different kinds of stem.
8. Is there a `longest word'?
9. How many definitions of the term `word' can you find?
10. What is a morpheme?
11. What is a formative?
12. What is a lexeme?
13. What is a lemma (in a lexicon)?
14. What is the meaning of the terms `affix', `prefix', `suffix', `infix', `interfix', `circumfix', `superfix', `ablaut', `umlaut', `intercalation', `zero derivation', `subtractive morpheme', `paradigm', `declension', `conjugation'?