Questions for Discussion. 2. In what way is a new word formed under conversion?
2. In what way is a new word formed under conversion? What does a converted word acquire? 3. What are the main varieties of conversion? 4. What parts of speech are especially affected by conversion? 5. What verbs are called denominal? What may the converted verb denote if the noun from which it is formed refers to some object of reality? 6. What nouns are called deverbal substantives? What may the converted noun denote if the verb from which it is formed refers to an action? 7. What are the basic criteria of semantic derivation in conversion? 8. What is word-composition? 9. What components does the meaning of a compound word consist of? 10. What is meant by the structural meaning of a compound word? 11. What is the formation of the lexical meaning of compounds based on? 12. What classes of compounds can be singled out according to the relations between the ICs that constitute them? 13. What groups do compound words fall into according to the part of speech they represent?
14. How can compounds be classified according to the means of composition? 15. What classes of compound words can be singled out according to the type of bases? 16. What does correlation between the system of free phrases and compound words embrace? 17. What four major classes of compounds can be singled out on the basis of their correlation with free phrases? 18. What subgroups do adjectival-nominal compounds comprise? 19. What structural patterns of compound adjectives can be singled out? What semantic relations may compound adjectives and their corresponding free phrases have? 20. What types of compound nouns do you know? 21. What patterns and semantic relations with their corresponding free phrases do verbal-nominal compounds have? 22. What patterns and semantic relations with their corresponding free phrases do nominal compounds have? 23. What patterns and semantic relations with their corresponding free phrases do verbal-adverbial compounds have?
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