The Syntactic, Semantic and Morphological Differences between Words with and without a Suffix

与日语不同的是，英语中的定语形容词在短语和单词中的形式都是相同的，因为它们没有屈折一致后缀。由于英语形容词的这一特性，有时很难决定某个“形容词-名词”形式是否有资格作为短语或单词，如复合词“small car driver”所示，其中表达“small car”似乎在成分上保留语义，或"Japanese small car“，其中序列”Japanese small“表现出偏离的词序。在英语中有所谓的关系形容词和限定形容词，后者是由各种拉丁语后缀附加在名词上形成的，它们被认为具有分类功能;因此，“关系形容词-名词”形式通常被认为具有命名功能。

In English, unlike in Japanese, attributive adjectives are identical in form both in phrases and in words, because they are lacking in inflectional agreement suffixes. Due to this property of English adjectives, it is sometimes difficult to decide whether a certain 'adjective-noun' forms are qualified as phrases or words, as is illustrated with the compound 'small car driver', where the expression 'small car' seems to retain a semantic compositionally, or with 'Japanese small car', where the sequence 'Japanese small' exhibits a deviant word order.Furthermore, there are so-called relational adjectives as well as qualifying adjectives in English, and the latter are formed by attaching various Latinate suffixes to nouns, and they are considered to have a classifying function; 'relational adjective-noun' forms, therefore, are usually regarded as having a naming function.