Stry of higher and secondary specialized education of the republic of uzbekistan ferghana state university

Questions
1. What does word-formation as a branch of lexicology study?
2. What two ways of forming new words are singled out in wordderivation?
3. What parts does a derivational structure of a word consist of?
Name and define them.
4. What is changed in a word if it is created by conversion?
5. What is the difference between word-derivation and wordcomposition?
6. Characterize ways of forming compound words form morphological,
structural and semantic points of view.
7. Give the definition for Shortening.
8. What similar and differential features can you find in Shortening
and Acronymy?
9. How is a new word coined if it is formed by Blending?
10. What underlies such type of word-formation as Back-formation?
11. Why do some linguists not single out Reduplication as a separate
type of word-formation?
12. What are other ways of word-formation belonging to the minor
type?


Glossary
affix: an inflectional or derivational morpheme; to attach an inflectional or derivational morpheme to an expression.
allomorph: variant phonological representation of a morpheme.
auxiliary verb: a verb other than the main verb of a clause.
base: part of word to which an affix may be attached; may but need not be a root morpheme.
bound morpheme: a morpheme that must be attached to another morpheme.
constituent: a unified part of a construction (e.g., of a word, phrase, or sentence).
conversion: derivational relationship between two words of different parts
of speech but without any formal marking of the difference.
coordinative compound: a compound word that denotes an entity or property to which both constituents contribute equally; e.g., bittersweet refers to a quality
which is both bitter and sweet.
derivation: process of changing a word from one part of speech to another
or from one subclass to another, typically by making some change in form.
endocentric compound: a compound word that denotes a subtype of whatever is denoted by the head. Armchair represents a type of chair; breath test represents a kind of test.
exocentric compound: a compound word that denotes a subtype of a category that is not mentioned within the compound; e.g., pickpocket represents a kind of person, not a kind of pocket nor a kind of pick.
free morpheme: a morpheme that need not be attached to another morpheme, but can constitute a word on its own.
head: the main constituent of a compound, which may be modified by the compound’s other constituents.
inflectional morpheme: a bound morpheme that signals a grammatical function and meaning in a specific sentence, e.g., plural {-s}, past tense {-ed}, comparative {-er}, superlative {-est}.
morph: a minimal meaningful form, regardless of whether it is a morpheme or allomorph.
morpheme: the smallest part of a word that has meaning or grammatical function.
prefix: a bound morpheme attached before a root.
realization: the representation of one or more abstract elements (e.g., morphemes) by concrete elements (e.g., sounds); e.g., women represents the morphemes {woman} + {plural}.
root: the basic constituent of a word, to which other morphemes are attached.
suffix: a bound morpheme attached after a root.
suppletion: irregular inflectional forms of a word resulting from the combination of historically different sources; e.g., go/went.