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I made a start with the definition and English examples (could add Spanish, some Japanese, but it's rather clear as it is). Someone with a clue should write about IE verb stems, which look like a completely different thing to me (agglutinative inflection rather than derivation). -- Pablo D. Flores 12:19, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
This article has quite compared stem and root in the introduction. The content that related to root, should be split out into Root_(linguistics) or removed. However others in this article, should stay. Rock on She ( talk) 17:14, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
There are languages in which every part of the word can change due to inflection or suffixation, yet it is still sensible to speak of a stem. For example, the Northern Sami verb eallit, whose inflection can be seen on Wiktionary. Only a single l is constant throughout the inflection, everything else is subject to change. But the stem of this verb is definitely ealli-, which is given as an argument to the template. The template can figure out all the forms from this one stem.
So I think the definition in the article needs some revising. It's not necessarily the part of the word that doesn't change, but rather the part of the word from which all inflected forms can be inferred. Rua ( mew) 13:16, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
I am afraid the example in "For another example, the root of the English verb form destabilized is stabil-, a form of stable that does not occur alone; the stem is de·stabil·ize, which includes the derivational affixes de- and -ize, but not the inflectional past tense suffix -(e)d." might be a bit unfortunate, since destabilize might actually more directly derive from Latin stabilis from stō+-bilis. If that is correct, stabil- is arguably not be a form of stable. Redav ( talk) 14:00, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
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I made a start with the definition and English examples (could add Spanish, some Japanese, but it's rather clear as it is). Someone with a clue should write about IE verb stems, which look like a completely different thing to me (agglutinative inflection rather than derivation). -- Pablo D. Flores 12:19, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
This article has quite compared stem and root in the introduction. The content that related to root, should be split out into Root_(linguistics) or removed. However others in this article, should stay. Rock on She ( talk) 17:14, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
There are languages in which every part of the word can change due to inflection or suffixation, yet it is still sensible to speak of a stem. For example, the Northern Sami verb eallit, whose inflection can be seen on Wiktionary. Only a single l is constant throughout the inflection, everything else is subject to change. But the stem of this verb is definitely ealli-, which is given as an argument to the template. The template can figure out all the forms from this one stem.
So I think the definition in the article needs some revising. It's not necessarily the part of the word that doesn't change, but rather the part of the word from which all inflected forms can be inferred. Rua ( mew) 13:16, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
I am afraid the example in "For another example, the root of the English verb form destabilized is stabil-, a form of stable that does not occur alone; the stem is de·stabil·ize, which includes the derivational affixes de- and -ize, but not the inflectional past tense suffix -(e)d." might be a bit unfortunate, since destabilize might actually more directly derive from Latin stabilis from stō+-bilis. If that is correct, stabil- is arguably not be a form of stable. Redav ( talk) 14:00, 29 March 2020 (UTC)