This statement is **False**.

In linguistic morphology, words can indeed contain both derivational affixes and inflectional affixes simultaneously.

1. **Derivational Affixes** are used to create new words or change the grammatical category of a word. For example, adding the prefix "un-" to the adjective "happy" forms the new word "unhappy," which is also an adjective.

2. **Inflectional Affixes** are used to indicate grammatical relationships such as tense, number, or case, and they do not change the grammatical category of the base word. For instance, adding the inflectional suffix "-s" to the noun "cat" creates the plural "cats."

A single word can be formed that includes both types of affixes, such as "unhappily" where "un-" is a derivational prefix, "happy" is the base, and "-ly" is an inflectional suffix that changes the adjective to an adverb. Thus, the assertion that a word can only contain a derivational or an inflectional affix but not both is incorrect.

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This statement is **False**.

In linguistic morphology, words can indeed contain both derivational affixes and inflectional affixes simultaneously.

1. **Derivational Affixes** are used to create new words or change the grammatical category of a word. For example, adding the prefix "un-" to the adjective "happy" forms the new word "unhappy," which is also an adjective.

2. **Inflectional Affixes** are used to indicate grammatical relationships such as tense, number, or case, and they do not change the grammatical category of the base word. For instance, adding the inflectional suffix "-s" to the noun "cat" creates the plural "cats."

A single word can be formed that includes both types of affixes, such as "unhappily" where "un-" is a derivational prefix, "happy" is the base, and "-ly" is an inflectional suffix that changes the adjective to an adverb. Thus, the assertion that a word can only contain a derivational or an inflectional affix but not both is incorrect.

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This statement is **False**.

In linguistic morphology, words can indeed contain both derivational affixes and inflectional affixes simultaneously.

1. **Derivational Affixes** are used to create new words or change the grammatical category of a word. For example, adding the prefix "un-" to the adjective "happy" forms the new word "unhappy," which is also an adjective.

2. **Inflectional Affixes** are used to indicate grammatical relationships such as tense, number, or case, and they do not change the grammatical category of the base word. For instance, adding the inflectional suffix "-s" to the noun "cat" creates the plural "cats."

A single word can be formed that includes both types of affixes, such as "unhappily" where "un-" is a derivational prefix, "happy" is the base, and "-ly" is an inflectional suffix that changes the adjective to an adverb. Thus, the assertion that a word can only contain a derivational or an inflectional affix but not both is incorrect.

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A word can only contain a derivational affix or an inflectional affix, but not both.

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