Word Formation In English

... 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 for ... what exactly we are dealing with in the study of word- formation. 2. Studying word- formation As the term word- formation suggests, we are dealing with the formation of wor...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2012, 08:22

... word- formation suggests, we are dealing with the formation of words, but what does that mean? Let us look at a number of words that fall into the domain of word- formation and a number of words ... 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 w...

Ngày tải lên: 19/08/2013, 14:15

... certain sets of affixes can also be illustrated by another interesting phenomenon. Both in compounding and in certain cases of affixation it is possible to coordinate two words by leaving out ... suffixes in (14) are consonant-initial, whereas the suffixes in (15) are vowel-initial. This means that the vowel-initial suffixes integrate into the prosodic structure of the base word....

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 15:20

... the intricate problems involved in this phenomenon. Although compounding is the most productive type of word formation process in English, it is perhaps also the most controversial one in terms ... Compounding 170 In the very first chapter, we defined compounding (sometimes also called composition) rather loosely as the combination of two words to form a new word. This defi...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 15:20

... according to their pronunciation or morphology. For example, if one is interested in words with the suffix -ion, the pertinent words are found in one subsection, with no non-pertinent words intervening. ... this kind of dictionary is extremely practical for the analysis of word- formation patterns, but has the disadvantage of containing nothing but word- forms, hence not giving any...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 15:20

... one is interested in words with the suffix -ion, the pertinent words are found in one subsection, with no non-pertinent words intervening. Thus, words ending in the same string of letters, such ... the analysis of word- formation patterns, but has the disadvantage of containing nothing but word- forms, hence not giving any additional information on these forms (e.g. meaning, fir...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2013, 10:15

... according to their pronunciation or morphology. For example, if one is interested in words with the suffix -ion, the pertinent words are found in one subsection, with no non-pertinent words intervening. ... this kind of dictionary is extremely practical for the analysis of word- formation patterns, but has the disadvantage of containing nothing but word- forms, hence not giving any...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 11:20