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Heads- u ps. Today ( HW5-part 2 due; RR7 due ) RR7 Discussion (Stephen & Lyam ) Compounding and other ways to form words Monday ( Midterm due) Types of languages (Typology) Syntax! (Ch. 4). Google Ngram Viewer http :// books.google.com/ngrams. MORPHOLOGY

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  1. Heads-ups Today (HW5-part 2 due; RR7 due) RR7 Discussion (Stephen & Lyam) Compounding and other ways to form words Monday (Midterm due) Types of languages (Typology) Syntax! (Ch. 4) Google Ngram Viewer http://books.google.com/ngrams

  2. MORPHOLOGY Compounding and other word-formation processes

  3. p. 124 of textbook List of some common English affixes and their properties dishonest brainlessness huggable dehumidify toothache

  4. bitter-sweet bittersweet face-book Facebook freeze-dry  freeze dry red-neck  redneck white-house  White House man-cave  man cave spoon-feed  spoonfeed man-bear-pig  manbearpig

  5. headedness • meaning Types of compounds: • endocentric • exocentric maple leaf maple leaves big foot  big feet • Maple Leaf  Maple Leafs • Bigfoot  Bigfoots • sabertooth  sabertooths Properties of compounds: spelling inseparability stress

  6. conversion blending hug (V)  hug (N) friend (N)  friend (V) breakfast + lunch brunch hurricane + vacation  hurrication pin + interest  Pinterest パーソナル +コンピュータ パソコン paasonarukonpyuutapasokon

  7. abbreviation clipping laboratory szacunek(PL, ‘respect’) Oh My God deoxyribonucleic acid Personal Identification No. light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation initialism acronym Joint Photographic Experts Group laugh out loud American Automobile Association JPEG LOL AAA lab szacun OMG DNA PIN laser

  8. borrowing alcohol kindergarten aficionado yogurt leak breeze Arabic German Spanish Turkish Dutch Portuguese anime (JAP)  dessinanimé(FRE) pomodoro (ITA)  pomidor (POL) skyscraper (ENG)  gratte-ciel(FRE)

  9. According to Finkenstaedt&Wolff’s 1973 computerized survey of about 80,000 English words, our words come from: French and Norman: 28.3% Latin (including scientific and technical Latin): 28.24% Germanic languages (including Old, Middle English): 25% Greek: 5.32% No etymology given or unknown: 4.03% Derived from proper names:3.28% Other: less than 1%

  10. reanalysis back formation editor (1649) baby-sitter obsessive surrealism  to edit (1791)  to babysit  to obsess  surreal hamburger actuality:Hamburg + -er Hamburger (GER) reanalysis: Ham + -burger Hamburger cockroach actuality: cucaracha(SPA) reanalysis: cock + -roach cockroach

  11. neologisms Google to Google Charles Boycott  to/a boycott Rover  rower (‘bicycle’ in POL) eponyms Muggle meh

  12. Identify the morph. processes! blending compound backformation initialism blending clipping acronym eponym friend + enemy  frenemy break + up  breakup emotion emote Federal Bureau of Investigation  FBI flirtation + relationship flirtationship statistics  stats North Atlantic Treaty Organization  NATO Anders Celsius  Celsius

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