... spellings are rather common (cf. word- formation, word formation, and wordformation, all of them attested), and even where the spelling is conventionalized, similar words are often spelled differently, ... area of study is traditionally referred to as word- formation and the present book is mainly concerned with word- formation in one particular language, English. As a textbook for an undergraduate ... problems in word- formation, productivity (chapter 3). The descriptively oriented chapters 4 through 6 deal with the different kinds of word- formation processes that can be found in English: chapter...
... when we speak of ‘words’, we may now turn to the question what exactly we are dealing with in the study of word- formation. 2. Studying word- formation As the term word- formation suggests, ... 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 that do not: (7) ... thousands of words, and new words enter our minds and our language on a daily basis. This book is about words. More specifically, it deals with the internal structure of complex words, i.e. words...
... derivative of -ation While suffixes and prefixes are very common in English, there are also rare cases of affixes that cannot be considered prefixes or suffixes, because they are inserted ... orthographic word, grammatical word and the notion of lexeme as possible definitions of word . Apply each of these notions to the words occurring in example (20) of chapter 1 and show how many words ... into the domain of word- formation, before we finally discuss how word- formation can be distinguished from the other sub-branch of morphology, inflection. 1. What is a word? It has been...
... distinct words or inflectional word forms are not part of morphological grammar” and exclude expletive infixation from word- formation, “because neither new words nor inflectional word forms ... the 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. ... Affixation 104the words in (12a, right column). However, the words in (12b, left column) have their syllable boundaries placed in such a way that they coincide with the word boundaries, even...
... inventory of compounding patterns In English, as in many other languages, a number of different compounding patterns are attested. Not all words from all word classes can combine freely with ... the suffix is attached to a compound consisting of the two words, or the suffix is attached to the right-hand word and the derived word then forms a compound together with the non-head. In ... and say that a compound is a word that consists of two elements, the first of which is either a root, a word or a phrase, the second of which is either a root or a word. 1.2. More on the...
... the underlined word or phrase in each sentence below: 10/ They work _______ the night and sleep _______ day.A. during- by B. by- during C. in- in D. at- atC. Select the correct words to complete ... B. include C. get D. receive PART 2A. Pick out the word whose underlined and bold part is pronounced differently from that ofthe other words:1/ A. conservation B. nation C. mention D. question2/ ... winter's day.A. comforting B. comforter C. comfortable D. comfortlessD. Select the most appropriate word to complete the following sentences:1/ I hate it _______ there's no one in the office.A....
... Professor Aitchison is _______ town this week.A. to B. into C. out of D. fromC. Select the correct words to complete the sentences:1/ In the rural areas, _______ is widespread.A. literate B. literacy ... but it was _______.A. hope B. hopeless C. hopeful D. hopefullyD. Select the most appropriate word to complete the following sentences:1/ I'll pay you double _______ you get the work finished ... insurance (C) thing. I'm really worried (D) about it."5/ "(A) Have you written your English essay (B) yet ?" "(C) Of course not , I finished it (D) last week ."6/...
... able to drive a heavy lorry. PART 10A. Pick out the word whose underlined and bold part is pronounced differently from that ofthe other words:1/ A. wou ld B. cou ld C. tough D. shou ld2/ ... to D. over- for H. Read the following passages carefully, and then select the most appropriate words providedto fill in the blanks:ã Passage 10:E-mail predates the inception of the (1) _______, ... terminals, and to storefiles online on disk. This new ability encouraged users to (3) _______ information in new ways. E-mail started in 1965 as a way for multiple users of a time-sharing mainframe...
... study English well. Whatdo you advise me to do?- You: _________________________.A. If I am you, I’d do more exercises. B. If I am you, I’ll do more exercises. C. If I were you, I’d do more exercises. D. ... I’ll do more exercises. C. If I were you, I’d do more exercises. D. If I were you, I’ll do more exercises. 12/ What do you say?- Your friend: My sister isn’t good at math and neither am I.-...
... seven years old.A. How long have you learned English? B. How long did you learn English? C. How long do you learn English? D. How long are you learning English? 13/ What do you say?- You: _________________________?-...
... please.- You: _________________________.A. People use it to learn English. B. People use it for learning English. C. It helps people learn English. D. A, B and C are OK.10/ What do you say?- Your...