stemaffix
Stemaffix is a term used in morphology and computational linguistics to describe affixes that attach to the stem of a word—the base form to which derivation or inflectional endings are bound. In stem-based analyses, the stem is treated as the core form distinct from the full word as it appears after subsequent affixation. A stemaffix thus functions as a bound morpheme whose primary effect is to modify the stem’s meaning, category, or grammatical function before later changes produce the surface form.
The concept is often employed to describe derivational or inflectional morphemes that attach directly to the
Not all linguists use the label stemaffix; some treat such morphemes simply as derivational or inflectional
Applications of the concept include improving stem-based morphological parsing, lemmatization, and resource organization in computational systems,