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Word Formation

Word Formation . Part 1. Word formation. Both inflectional (or grammatical) e.g. plural suffix, genitive suffix, present or past participle etc. and derivational (or lexical) affixes e.g. un-, mis-, -ness , - ship, -hood are attached to roots.

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Word Formation

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  1. Word Formation Part 1

  2. Word formation • Both inflectional (or grammatical) e.g. plural suffix, genitive suffix, present or past participle etc. and derivational (or lexical) affixes e.g.un-, mis-, -ness, -ship, -hood are attached to roots. • Another kind of word formation is where more than one root is joined together (e.g. baby-sit). This is called compounding. • Conversion word formation is when a change of word class occurs without any affixation (e.g. skin, a verb derived from a noun, or input, a noun derived from a verb)

  3. Word Coinage

  4. English Word Coinage • Compounds • Acronyms • Back-formations • Abbreviations • Eponyms • Blends

  5. 1. Compounds • Definition: Two or more words joined together to form a new word. • Examples: • Home + work  homework • Pick + pocket  pickpocket

  6. Note: The meaning of a compound is not always the sum of the meanings of its parts. • Coconut oil  oil made from coconuts. • Olive oil  oil made from olives. • Baby oil  NOT oil made from babies oil for babies • cathouse  a house where men visit prostitutes • blue-movies  • blue-chip  • go-go 

  7. 2. Compounding (1) • Compounding (compounds): combine two or more free morphemes to form new words N N N N ADJ N NNN ADJN V N V fire engine green house jump suit P wall paper blue bird kill joy book case N text book P N after thought out patient

  8. 2. Compounding (2) N ADJ ADJADJ P ADJ ADJ ADJ N ADJ ADJADJ P ADJ nation-wide red - hot over ripe sky blue far - fetched in grown pitch black out spoken out standing

  9. 2. Compounding (3) N ADJ V V P V V V V V N V ADJ V P V V V Spoon-feed white wash out live blow dry Steam-roller dry clean underestinatebreakdance

  10. 2. Compounding (4) N N N NN N N NN NNN dog food box stone age cave man

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