1. complete the words with suitable negative prefixes.
a. irremovable m. dissyllabic
b. informal n. abnormal
c. impracticable o. unworkable
d. innsible p. unwritten
e. intangible q. unusual
f. illogical r. unthinkable
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g. irregular s. inhuman
h. disproportionate t.irrelevant
i. ineffective u. uneditable
j. inelastic v. immobile
k. inductive w. illegal
1. irrational x. indiscreet
2. find the sources of the following blends.
(a) bash: bat + mash
(b)smash: smack + mash
(c) glimmer: gleam + shimmer
(d) flimmer: flame + glirmmer
(e) clash: clap+ crash
(f) flare: flame + glare
(g) brunch: breakfast+ lunch
(h) motel: motor+ hotel
(k) workaholic: work + alcoholic
(1) spam: spiced+ ham
(m) telethon: telephone + marathon
(n) aerobici: aerobicis + exerci
(o) chunnel: channel + tunnel
(p) chortle: chuckle + snort
(q) bit: binary + digit.
(r) modem: modulator + demodulator
3. determine the historically accurate etymology of the words
(a)hangnail(alter. of agnail, angnail) aching nail
(b) female(ME: femel, femelle) a male¡¯s companion
(c) crayfish( ME: crevis) crawling fish
(d) shamefaced( alter. of shamefast) bound by shame
(e) Jordan almond(ME: jardin almande) garden almond
(f) sparrowgrass(alter of asparagus) a genus of herbs
(g) bridegroom (ME: bridegome) a man is just, or about
(h) bridegroom(ME: bridegome) a man is just, or about o be married.
(i) muskrat( Algonquian: musquash) a large rat-like animal
(j) woodchuck( Algonquian: otchek) a north American marmot 8. (a) ast: asts (k) diagno: diagnosis
4. determine the original term from which the following words were back-formed.
(a) ast: asts
(k) diagno: diagnosis
(b) burgle: burglar
(1) tuit: intuition
恶的象征(c) enthu: enthusiasm 冰心的小诗
(m) amusing: amu
(d) greed: greedy
(n) loaf: loafer
(e) hush: hush
(o) lf-druct:lf-destructicn
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(p) attrit: attrition
(g)donate: donation
(q) hairdress: hairdresr
(h)escalate: escalator
(r) emote: emotion
(i) born ck: homesickness
(s) drow: drowsy
(j) die: peddler
(t) frivol: frivolous
5. identify the immediate etymological source of the words
(a) air: Middle English
(k) mule: Middle English
(b) barbecue: American Spanish
(I) decreed: Middle English
青山在(c) bungalow: Hindi
(m) revolution: Middle English
(d) cola: African origin
(n) benevolent:Middle English
(e) gusto: Spanish
(o) lie:Middle English
(f) Babel: The Bible
(p) topic: Latin
古老肉的做法(g) buffalo: Italian
(q) subject: Middle English
(h) cocoa: Spanish
(r) theme: Middle English
(i) costume: French
(s) wind: Middle English
(j) ill: Middle English
(t) datum: Latin
6. LW趴地矮珍珠: monk, loanword; LB: boody trap, coconut; LS享乐主义的表现: yankee; LT: firewater, free ver, war paint
5. “A free form which consists entirely of two or more lesr free forms…. is a phra. A free form which is not a phra is a word. A word, then, ...
(a) Bloomfield treated such items as book, book, or do, does, did, done, not as the same words in different forms, but as different words. But on the other hand, he also claimed that John’s in John’s hat should be regarded as one word. At the same time, the boy’s (bat) is also just one word. From here, one cn e that Bloomfield’s definition of word intended to cover different linguistic units with the same criterion.
(b) The traditionally recognized words such as the grammatical articles a and the are different words from their modifying head, but Bloomfield thought differently, as was evidenced in(a).
(c) Conquently, grammatical criterion was taken into account while defining the scope of word. For example, Bloomfield treated the constituent the king of England’s or the man I saw yesterday’s rving as a premodifier as independent long word. In fact, this type of modifier is rank—shifted phras, not words at all.
6. in what ways is IC analysis better than traditional parsing?
In traditional parsing, a ntence is mainlyen as a quence of individual words, as if it has only a linear structure. IC analysis, however, emphasizes the hierarchical structure of a ntence, eLing it as consisting of word groups first. In this way the internal
