Zusammenfassung der Ressource
morphology and the lexicon word formation processes
- Affixation Words Structure
- Prefixes, or suffixes .1) SIMPLE : The word
cannot be segmentate according to the
meaning, words like: boy, hospital,hunter etc.
2) COMPLEX: The word can be segmentated
into different parts , words like: hospital-ize,
hospital-ize-ation etc.
- DerivationWord formation
- This is a process that changes the words,
changes the category of the word.
Examples: To fix (v), Fixable (adj),
Penny(n), Pennyless (adj.), Happy (v),
unhappiness (adj)
- Compounding and multicompounding words
- This is the creation of new
words out of existing ones,
independant words occur
together to form a new
compound word. Examples:
red-skin, armchair, overdose,
underarm etc.
- Other word formation processes
- 1)Blending:Process
of combining two
separate forms to
produce a single
term- Examples:
Gasohol = Gasoline
and alcohol
- 2) Clipping: It means
cutting off the
beginning or ending of
a word ,or both,
leaving a part to stand
for a whole. Examples:
lab,dorm,
prof,exam,math etc.
- 3)Backformation:A word of one
type is reduced to form another
word of a different type, from
noun to a verb. Examples:
Television, televise,
donate,donation, edit, editor etc.
- 4)Conversion: This is a change
in the function of a word, a
noun that becomes a verb with
any reduction. Examples:
access, to access, host, To host,
salt, to salt. etc.
- 5) Acronyms : They
are words derived
from the initials of
several words.
Examples: ONU,MIT,NATO etc.
- Additional Formations
- 1) Coinage: The invention of
totally new names, invented
trade names for commercial
products that become general
terms for any version of that
product. Examples:
Kleenex,Teflon,Google,
- 2)Borrowings: It is a word or
a phrase adopted from one
language into another.
Examples: software,piano,
color, doctor,
- Inflection
- Morphological process that modifies a
word´s form in order to make the
grammatical subclass . This doesn´t
change the grammatical category of the
word , it changes the subclass. Examples.
singular to plural, present to past,
comparative to superlative, base dorm
verb to 3rd person,
- Compounds
- This words have a head and a
modifier, the head is on the right
and the modifier on the left.
Examples: Highchair, boyfriend.