NON-PRODUCTIVE TYPES OF WORD-BUILDING
Sound-interchange is the way of wordbuilding when some sounds are changed to form a new word. It is non-productive in Modern English; it was productive in Old English and can be met in other Indo. European languages.
The change may affect: the root vowel to feed – food, to strike – stroke, to sing – song the root consonant to speak – speech Both life – to live It may also be combined with affixation: strong (a) – strength (n) with affixation and shift of stress: 'democrat – de'mocracy
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Sound imitation or onomatopoeia [ɔnəmætə'pi: ə] It is the way of word building when imitating of different sounds forms a word. There are some semantic groups of words formed by means of sound imitation a) Sounds produced by human beings: to whisper, to giggle, to sneeze, to whistle etc. b) Sounds produced by animals, birds, insects: to hiss, to buzz, to bark, to moo, to twitter etc. c) Sounds produced by nature and objects: to splash, to bubble, to ding-dong, etc.
Reduplication - is a morphological process in which root or stem or part of it is repeated. Mur – mur шепот, журчание Pooh-pooh высмеивать Tip-top превосходный
Stress interchange can be mostly met in verbs and nouns of Romanic origin, nouns have the stress on the first syllable and verbs on the last syllable. to af`fix -`affix to con`flict - `conflict to ex`port -`export to ex`tract - `extract
Backformation (disaffixation) is the way of word-building when a word is formed by dropping the final morpheme to form a new word. to bach (from bachelor) to televise (from television) to baby-sit (from baby-sitter)
Blending is the way of word-building when word is formed from parts of two words (merging into one word) Bustle + hurry = hustle Breakfast + lunch = brunch Smoke + haze = smaze (дымка) Positive + electron = positron Medical + care = medicare
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