The word-forming system of english


Major Types of Word-formation



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Major Types of Word-formation

  • Semantically compounds may be non-idiomatic and idiomatic.
  • Compounds are non-idiomatic when they are motivated morphologically, e.g., Suitcase is a sum of meanings of the stems this compound word consists of (the meaning of each stem is retained).
  • When the compound is not motivated morphologically, it is idiomatic. The meaning of each component is either lost or weakened. It has a transferred meaning, e.g., Butterball – is not “a ball made of butter”, it is “someone who is fat, especially child”.

Minor Types of Word-formation

  • Minor types of modern word-formation are shortening, blending, acronymy, sound interchange, sound imitation, distinctive stress, back-formation, and reduplication.

Minor Types of Word-formation

  • Shortening is the formation of a new word by cutting off a part of the word.
  • Types:
  • · aphaeresis – initial part of the word is clipped, e.g. history → story, telephone → phone;
  • · syncope – the middle part of the word is clipped, e.g. madam → ma'am; specs → spectacles
  • · apocope – the final part of the word is clipped, e.g. professor → prof, vampire → vamp;
  • · both initial and final, e.g. influenza → flu, detective → tec.

Minor Types of Word-formation

  • Polysemantic words are usually clipped in one meaning only. E.g., doctor →1) someone who is trained to treat people who are ill; 2) someone who holds the highest level of degree given by a university. Thus, it can be clipped only in the first meaning, e.g. doc.
  • There can be distinguished homonyms, so that one and the same sound and graphical lexical unit may represent different words,
  • e.g., vac – vacation and vacuum,
  • vet – veterinary surgeon and veteran.

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