Word derivation in Modern English
2. Native and Borrowed Words in Modern English. Degree of Assimilation of Borrowed Words. Words. :Assimilation – phonetic, grammatic, semantic. Assimilated, non-assimilated, partially assimilated Ex: Data-datum – partially assimilated, Machine – French borrow – not-assim phonetically (because of stress on the second syllable) Compound words. Their Structure and Meaning. Polymorphic nouns. Their Structure and Meaning. Affixation as a Way of Word Formation in Modern English. Affixation is … derivational affixes Suffixation is more productive than prefixation. Affixes 1) living and dead (types of affixes): Beautiful – beauti-ful – living, Admit – ad-mittere – dead (merged) 2) Productive & non-productive P – capable to produce new words (over -worked, under -estimated) Functional – derivational 3) convey grammatical meaning (near, near-er, near-est); do not form a new word 4) serving to supply the stem with components of lexical and lexico-grammatical meaning (bagg-y, fool-ish)root-affixational 5) lexical centre of the word (manage-ment, help-less) 6) (inflections and derivational affixes: hope-ful, like-able, warm-er) 7) free-bound 8) (occuring in isolation as separate words and functioning as independent words: sad, bamboo) not found in isolation: dis-function, use-less)
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