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

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.