Stress neutral affix

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Stress neutral affix is a term which refers to one of the most characteristic properties of Class II affixes: the property of not having any effect on the stress pattern of the base.

Example

if we add the affix -ness to the word prodúctive, the stress is unaffected (prodúctiveness). Stress neutral affixes are distinguished from stress shifting affixes.

Links

Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics

References

  • Chomsky, N. and M. Halle 1968. The Sound Pattern of English, Harper and Row, New York.
  • Siegel, D. 1974. Topics in English Morphology, PhD diss. MIT, Cambridge, Mass.
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