Questions for Discussion. 1. What is word-formation?

 

1. What is word-formation?

2. What are the principal types of word-formation?

3. What are the basic ways of forming words in word-derivation?

4. What is meant by word-composition?

5. What are the minor types of modern word-formation?

6. What is shortening? What groups of shortenings can be singled out?

7. What does blending mean? What types of blends can be distinguished?

8. What type of word-formation is called acronymy? What basic types of acronyms do you know?

9. What is sound-interchange? What groups does sound-interchange fall into?

10. What is meant by sound imitation or onomatopoeia? What groups of onomatopoeic words can be singled out according to the semantic principle?

11. What do we call back-formation?

12. What type of word-formation is known as distinctive stress?

13. What is affixation?

14. What is the role of suffixes in the formation of new words?

15. What are the principles of the classification of suffixes?

 

16. What is prefixation?

17. What principles of the classification of prefixes can be singled out?

18. What does the term „productivity of derivational affixes‟ denote?

19. What affixes are called productive?

20. What affixes are known as non-productive?

21. In what way can the productivity of an affix change in the course of time?

22. What is the difference between the productivity of affixes and their frequency of occurrence?

23. What main classes of affixes can be distinguished from the point of view of their etymology?

24. What affixes are called native?

25. What are the sources of borrowed affixes?

26. What words are called hybrids? What are the basic types of hybrid words?

27. What is meant by the valency of affixes?

28. What is the valency of bases?

29. Why is it important to investigate or to take into account the combining possibilities of affixes and bases?