Word Compounds in English

... feature: Compound words have specialized meanings Therefore, knowing the meaning of each element of a compound word does not make it possible to figure out the meaning of the whole combination • Examples: ... Trouser-hangers Binocular-cases Craftsmen Left-Headed Singular • • • Passer-by Mother -in- law Attorney general Plural • • • Passers-by Mothers -in- law Attorneys general Features of...

Ngày tải lên: 12/05/2016, 23:32

... question what exactly we are dealing with in the study of wordformation Studying word- formation As the term word- formation suggests, we are dealing with the formation of words, but what does that ... to words ending in the phonetic string [fär] and not to words ending in the bound root -fer How can we test which analysis is correct? We would need to find words that end in the...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2012, 08:22

... the italicized words in (13) and think about the question whether kicks in (13a), drinking in (13b), or students in (13c) should be regarded as ‘new words’ in the sense of our definition a She ... other words in (5) If we assume that in- is a prefix meaning in, into’ we would predict that infer would mean ‘carry into’, which is not even close to the real meaning of infer The mean...

Ngày tải lên: 19/08/2013, 14:15

... inflict ingenious ingeniously ingredient inhabit inhabitant inherit inhibit innumerable insanity insight insistence inspection inspiration inspire instantaneously instinctively institution institutionalize ... institutionalize instructive instrumentalist insulation insulting insurmountable intact integral integrate integrated intelligible intense intensive intent interact with interaction int...

Ngày tải lên: 19/08/2013, 14:15

... to preSENT, to exPORT, to deCIDE, to beGIN Nhấn vào âm tiết thứ hai tính từ cuối – Words ending in -ic: e.g: GRAPHic, geoGRAPHic, geoLOGic – Words ending in -sion and -tion: e.g: contriBUtion, ... từ cuối – Words ending in -cy, -ty, -phy and -gy: e.g: deMOcracy, dependaBIlity, phoTOgraphy, geOLogy – Words ending in -al: e.g: CRItical, geoLOGical Từ ghép – For compound nouns, the stre...

Ngày tải lên: 20/08/2013, 07:54

... (fròn)-EXPL-(tíer) *(tí-EXPL-ger) (sár)-EXPL-(dìne) *se-EXPL-(réne) or *(se-EXPL-réne) (bì)-EXPL-chlórìde *(Cá-EXPL-nada) or *(Cá-EXPL-na)da (bàn)-EXPL-(dánna) *ba-EXPL-(nána) or *(ba-EXPL-ná)na ... Chapter 4: Affixation (19) 128 Possible and impossible infixations fròn-EXPL-tíer *tí-EXPL-ger sàr-EXPL-díne *se-EXPL-réne bì-EXPL-chlórìde *Cá-EXPL-nada bàn-EXPL-dánna *ba-EXPL-nána ámper-EXPL-...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 15:20

... take -o- when combined with a vowel-initial final combining form, but that take -o- when combined with a consonant-initial final combining form And indeed, such data exist: the initial combining ... pipe-and-slipper husband off-the-rack dress over-the-fence gossip In (3a) we find compounds involving elements (astro-, bio-, photo-), which are not attested as independent words (note that phot...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 15:20

... question what exactly we are dealing with in the study of wordformation Studying word- formation As the term word- formation suggests, we are dealing with the formation of words, but what does that ... to words ending in the phonetic string [fär] and not to words ending in the bound root -fer How can we test which analysis is correct? We would need to find words that end in the...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 15:20

... the plural of son -in- law is not *son -in- laws but sons -in- law Under the assumption that son -in- law is one word (i.e some kind of compound), the plural ending is inserted inside the word and not at ... phenomena that fall into the domain of word- formation, before we finally discuss how word- formation can be distinguished from the other sub-branch of morphology, inflection Wha...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2013, 10:15

... of fresh rain in a forest in the fall Certainly a unified concept, but we would not consider the smell of fresh rain in a forest in the fall a word In fact, English simply has no single word ... expressing subjunctive infinitive or imperative, respectively This brings us to the last possible interpretation, namely that (6) may refer to the linking verb BE in general, as we would...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 11:20

... word alignment in parallel texts involving European languages and Chinese, Japanese However, our initial experiments with these algorithms on English-Hindi did not produce good results In order ... Constraint on the three Engish-Hindi parallel corpora Corpora Storybook corpus Advertisement corpus Sentence corpus English corpus Total words Distinct words 6609 895 3795 1213...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 18:20

... of fresh rain in a forest in the fall Certainly a unified concept, but we would not consider the smell of fresh rain in a forest in the fall a word In fact, English simply has no single word ... expressing subjunctive infinitive or imperative, respectively This brings us to the last possible interpretation, namely that (6) may refer to the linking verb BE in general, as we would...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 06:21