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Compounding is a process of word formation by which two independent words are put together to make one word. The word formed in this way is called compound
Blending is a process of word formation by which a word is created by combining parts of other words. Words formed in this way are called blends. From morphological viewpoints, there are four types of blending:
Acronymy is the process of forming new words by joining the initial letters of names of social and political organizations or special noun phras and technical terms. Words formed in this way are called initialisms or acronyms, depending on the pronunciation of the words.
Initialisms are words formed by the initial letters of words and pronounced as lettersEEC: European Economic Community
Acronyms are words formed by the initial letters of words and pronounced as words:OPEC: Organisation of Petroleum Export Countries
According to Leonard Bloomfield's point of view, a word is a minimum free form, that is to say, the smallest form that may appear in isolation.
There are two types of linguistic forms: one is the bound form, the other is the free form.
A bound form is one which cannot occur on its own as a parate word, e.g. the various affixes: de-, -tion, -ize, etc.
A free form is one which can occur as a parate word. For example, the word lovely contains the free form love and the suffix -ly.
The suffix -ly in the word lovely, of cour, is not a free form, becau it cannot stand by itlf. So we call it a bound form.
A word is a minimum free form
The morpheme can be considered as the smallest functioning unit in the composition of words.
1) Morphemes are commonly classified into two forms according to their character: one is free form, and the other is bound form.
2) Free morphemes 自由词素 are morphemes which can occur as parate words. That is to say, a free morpheme can stand alone as a word.
3) Bound morphemes粘着词素are morphemes which cannot stand alone as words. They are mainly affixes. That is to say, a bound morpheme is one that must appear with at least one other morpheme, bound or free in a word.
4) 2) Morphemes may be classified into two categories according to their lexical and grammatical relationships:
5) lexical morphemes and grammatical morphemesLexical morphemes are morphemes ud for the construction of new words as in compound words
Grammatical morphemes are morphemes ud to express grammatical relationships between a word and its context, such as plurality or past ten
There are three types of words according to morphology: Simple words,Compound words,Complex words
Conversion电话接线员
Conversion is a main type of word-formation assigning the ba to a different word class with no change of form. For example, the verb relea is converted to the noun relea.
There are two kinds of conversion: full conversion and partial conversion.
Full conversion is conversion as already discusd above.
Partial conversion is conversion, where a word of one word class appears in a function which is characteristic of another word class西班牙语发音>ctv
The types of conversion contain three major word class: nouns, verbs and adjectives. Conversion from noun to verb and from verb to noun are the most productive categories.
Conversion can be classified into four categories according to word class.
Affixation falls into two categories: prefixation and suffixation and the differences between them are just the differences between prefixes and suffixes.
dertion
The major prefixes can be classified into 10 categories by their meaning.
Negative Prefixes否定前缀
should是什么意思
Reversative or privative prefixes逆反前缀
Pejorative prefixes贬义前缀
Prefixes of degree or size表范围和程度的前缀
Prefixes of orientation and attitude表方向和态度的前缀
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Locative prefixes方位前缀
Prefixes of time and order表时间和顺序的前缀
法航447空难
Number prefixes数字前缀
Conversion prefixes转化前缀
Miscellaneous prefixes其他类型的前缀
Etymology is the study of the origin and history of words and their meanings.
Etymology provides background information and knowledge about the history, origin and development of the English language and increas the learner's enjoyment and real understanding of English words from their changes of forms including their spellings and pronunciations to that of meanings
stem: the part of a word that stays the same when different endings are added to it, for example 'driv-' in 'driving'
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