1. The subject of Lexicology and the main lexicological problems



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14. Minor types of word formation.
Various types and ways of forming words.
Word-formation is the system of derivative types of words and the process of creating new words from material, available in the language after certain structural and semantic formulas and patterns. A distinction is made between two principal types of word-formation: word-derivation and word-composition. The basic ways of forming words in word derivation are affixation and conversion. Affixation is the formation of a new word with the help of affixes (f.e. heartless; overdo). Conversion is the formation of a new word by bringing a stem of this word into a different formal paradigm (f.e. a private, to paper). The basic form of the original and the basic form of the derived words are homonymous.
Word-composition is the formation of a new word by combining two or more stems which occur in the language as free forms (f.e. house-keeper, door-handle).
Apart from principal there are some minor types of modern word-formation, i.e. shortening, blending, acronymy, sound interchange, sound imitation, distinctive stress, back-formation.
Shortening is the formation of the word by cutting off a part of the word. According to the part of the word which is cut off (initial, middle or final) there are the following types of shortening 1- initial (aphesis) f.e. fend from defend, phone from telephone; 2 – medial (syncope) f.e. fancy from fantasy; 3 – final (apocope) f.e. veg from vegetavles; 4 – both initial and final f.e. flu from influenza.
Blending is the formation of a new word by combining parts of two words. Blends may be of two types: 1 – additive type that may be transformed into a phrase consisting of complete stems combined by the conjunction and, smog = smoke + fog; 2 – restrictive type that can be transformed into a phrase, the first element of which serves as a modifier for the second f.e. telecast = television broadcast.
Acronymy (graphical abbreviation) is the formation of the word from the initial letters of word combination. There are two basic types of acronyms: 1 – acronyms which are read as ordinary English words f.e. UNESCO – the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization; 2 – acronyms with the alphabetic reading f.e. BBC – the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Sound interchange is the formation of a word due to an alternation in the phonemic composition of its root. Sound-interchange falls into two groups: 1 – vowel-interchange (ablaut) f.e. food – to feed, in some cases vowel-interchange is combined with suffixation (f.e. strong – strength) ; 2 – consonant-interchange f.e advice – to advise. Consonant & Vowel interchange may be combined together (f.e. life – to live).
Sound imitation (onomatopoeia) is the naming of an action or a thing by a more or less exact reproduction of the sound associated with it f.e. cock-a-dooodle-do = ку-ка-ре-ку. Semantically, according to the source sound, many onomatopoeic words fall into a few very definite groups: 1 – words denoting sound producing by human beings in the process of communication or expressing their feelings f.e. chatter, babble; 2 – words denoting sound produced by animals, birds, insects f.e. moo, croak, buzz; 3 – words imitating the sound of water, the noise of metallic things, a forceful motion, movements f.e. splash, clink, whip, swing.
Back-formation is the formation of a new word by subtracting a real or supposed suffix from the existing words. The process is based on analogy. F.e. butle was made from butler.
Distinctive stress is the formation of a word by means of the shift of the stress in the source word, f.e. ‘absent – ab’sent.


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