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Cambridge University Press Word Formation In English

Cambridge University Press 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 ... attaches 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 phonetic ... whether kicks in (13a), drinking in (13b), or students in (13c) should be regarded as ‘new words’ in the sense of our definition. (13) a. She kicks the ball. b. The baby is not drinking her milk...

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Word   formation in english

Word formation in english

... 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 meaning ... attaches 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 phonetic ... meaning of interview and the meaning of the ingredient morphemes inter- and view, you can observe that the meaning of interview is not the sum of the meaning of its parts. The meaning of inter-...

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Cambridge University Press Word Formation In English - Affixation

Cambridge University Press Word Formation In English - Affixation

... 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 ... actions we find instrument nouns such as blender, mixer, steamer, toaster, nouns denoting entities associated with an activity such as diner, lounger, trainer, winner (in the sense ‘winning shot’). ... simply meaning something like ‘person or thing having to do with X’. The more specific interpretations of individual formations would then follow from an interaction of the meanings of base...

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Cambridge University Press Word Formation In English - Compounding

Cambridge University Press Word Formation In English - Compounding

... when combined with a vowel-initial final combining form, but that do take -o- when combined with a consonant-initial final combining form. And indeed, such data exist: the initial combining form ... building for growing plants’ ‘a house that is green’ c. óperating instructions operating instrúctions ‘instructions for operating something’ ‘instructions that are operating’ d. instálling ... the only initial combining form that never allows the linking element, while there are four final combining forms allowing vowels other than -o- preceding them. Chapter 6: Compounding 181 (13)...

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Cambridge University Press Word Formation In English

Cambridge University Press Word Formation In English

... meanings in all the words in which it occurs. If you check the meanings these words have in contemporary English in a dictionary, you may end up with paraphrases similar to those found in the ... what we find in the OED. Unfortunately, this does not work for the other words in (5). If we assume that in- is a prefix meaning in, into’ we would predict that infer would mean ‘carry into’, ... meaning of interview and the meaning of the ingredient morphemes inter- and view, you can observe that the meaning of interview is not the sum of the meaning of its parts. The meaning of inter-...

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Word - formation in English

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 ... 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 meaning ... attaches 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 phonetic...

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Tài liệu Word-formation in English ppt

Tài liệu Word-formation in English ppt

... 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 words, but what does ... 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 meaning ... although the word looks rather similar to a word such as inventor. Inventor (‘someone who invents (something)’) is decomposable into two morphemes, because both invent- and -or are meaningful elements,...

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Word list in english

Word list in english

... lỗi lạc distinctive (adj) ( distinctive of something) đặc biệt; để phân biệt distinctively (adv) rõ ràng, minh bạch, rành mạch distinctly (adv) riêng biệt; rõ ràng, rành mạch, minh bạch, rõ ... uy nghi imprint (n) dấu vết, vết in, vết hằn; ảnh hưởng sâu sắc; phần ghi của nhà xuất bản;(v) đóng, in (dấu); in dấu vào, đóng dấu vào (cái gì); ghi khắc, ghi nhớ, in sâu vào, in hằn imprisonment ... refine (v) lọc, lọc trong, luyện tinh, tinh chế, làm cho tinh khiết; cải tiến; làm cho tinh tế hơn, làm cho lịch sự hơn, làm cho tao nhã hơn (sở thích, ngôn ngữ, tác phong ); trau chuốt refinement...

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Vocabulary List 5 - Foreign Language Terms Used in English

Vocabulary List 5 - Foreign Language Terms Used in English

... of the words in the group. 35. ingénue. An ingénue is a young naïve girl, the opposite of the words in the group. 36. élan. Élan means spirit, enthusiasm, the opposite of the words in the list. 37. imbroglio. ... situa- tion or an embarrassing misunderstanding, the opposite of the words listed. 38. blasé. Blasé means apathetic due to over indul- gence in something, the opposite of the words listed. 39. vendetta. ... young, innocent, simple, and sometimes gullible. In English, we would have to use three or four words to express the same thing that the word naïve does. Some of these words are used frequently in...

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