WORD-BUILDING Morpheme s CONSTITUENTS OF WORDS FREE ROOTS

WORD-BUILDING

Morpheme(s) CONSTITUENTS OF WORDS FREE ROOTS BOUND AFFIXES PREFIXES SUFFIXES INFIXES STEM DERIVATIONAL FUNCTIONAL NATIVE BORROWED PRODUCTIVE NON-PRODUCTIVE

AFFIXATION • SUFFIXATION • PREFIXATION

-ably = -able+ -ly -ation = -ate + -ion -ically = -ic + -al + -ly noun-forming: -er -or -ing -ness -ation/ -ion (adaptation, formation, education, translation) adjective-forming: -able (bearable, acceptable, changeable) -less -ful –ic (historic, classic) -ish (girlish, foolish) -y (noisy, silky, sleepy) verb-forming: -ate (legate, advocate, magistrate) -en (deepen, weaken, sadden, blacken) -fy/-ify (beautify, intensify) -ize (organize, mobilize) adverb-forming: -ly -ward (backward, foreward, westward, homeward)

deverbal: -er -ing -ment (movement, entertainment) –able denominal: -less -ish -ful -ist –ism –some (troublesome, irksome, tiresome) deadjectival: -en -ly -ish (greenish, reddish) –ness agent of action: -er -ant (student, merchant, servant, peasant) names of nationality, belonging to smth: -ish -an/-ian –ese collectivity: -age (tonnage, acreage, breakage) -ery (machinery, slavery, poetry, husbandry) -dom absence /presence of quality: -less -ful a special subgroup of feminine suf-es: -ess (hostess, poetess, heiress, tigress, leopardess) -ine(a) (heroine, czarina) -ette ( farmerette, usherette)

diminutiveness: -ie/-y, -ey (Annie, Charley, deary, auntie -let (circlet, oaklet, starlet, booklet) -ling (duckling, wolfling) connotational characteristics: + emotional force, mainly derogatory OE ester: spinestre (та, что пряла) spinster, gangster, youngster -ton: simpleton -ard: stinkard -ie: oldie -ling: kingling worldling earthling Stylistic reference: neutral stylistically coloured -oid, -form, -tron (asteroid, cruciform, cyclotron)

PREFIXATION ~those not correlated with any independent word (either notional or functional) ~ those correlated with any independent word (prepositions or preposition-like adverbs): out- over- up- under- after- in- byto overpass, over the river, to outline, to take smb. out upstairs, to look up, undercurrent, under the table afternoon, after the breakfast, byroad, by means of deverbal: rewrite, outstay, overdo denominal: unbutton, detrain, ex-president, uplift deadjectival: uneasy, biannual, extraordinary

According to their denotational meaning negative: un- < nat. in- im- ir- non-, ab- dis- < Rom. a- < Gr. non-stop, nonsense, abnormal, abuse, disunion, disaffection, atheist, apathy, anonymous opposition: anti- counter-(contra-, contro-) antitype, antithesis, antitank, counter-attack, counterbalance of time & order: fore- post- exforetell, foreknowledge, prewar, postwar, ex-minister repetition: relocative: super- sub- trans- inter- in- outsuperstructure, subdivision, intercontinental, transplant

pejorative: mis- mal- pseudomiscalculate, misinform, maltreat, pseudoclassical Stylistic reference neutral stylistically coloured ultra- uni- biultraviolet, unilateral, unilingual, bifocal

MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF WORDS 1) morphemic: unwashedness 4 morphemes: 1 rootmorpheme, 3 affixational girl— 1 r-m. → a root word girlish— 1 r-m. + 1 suf. → a derived word girl-friend— 2 r-m-s (stems)→ a compound word old-maidish— 2 stems + aff. → a compound derivative 2) derivational: unwashedness a derivative stem with 3 degrees of derivation 3) Immediate Constituents (IC): unwashed + ness un + washed wash + ed

COMPOSITION COMPOUNDS

degree of the semantic cohesion Non-idiomatic classroom, medium-sized, theatre-goer, pocket-book, reading-hall, sleeping-car Idiomatic blackbird, football (not a ball but some game), book-keeper, highway (not a way but a broad main road used esp. by traffic going from one town to another)

blackbird—some kind of bird good-for-nothing—not a compliment chatterbox, fuss-pot, blackmail bluebottle: 1) flower (василёк) 2) insect (муха трупная) 3) coll. cop

determining & determined parts determinant & determinatum • Endocentric • Exocentric maidservant looking-glass green-grocer night-school killjoy scarecrow cutthroat daredevil pick-pocket turncoat start -back diehard (iron. )—an irreconcilable conservative

pick-up (iron. )—a chance acquaintance, a prostitute blackout—a period of complete darkness hangover Bahuvrihi black-shirt Adj. + Noun fathead highbrow lazy-bones

Criteria (criterion) distinguishing between a compound & a wordcombination

Phonological a uniting heavy stress key-hole hot-house mad-doctor bedroom blackbird BUT: all, self—double even stress ′All-′Fools-Day ′self-′control compound adjectives: ′blue-′eyed ′absent-′minded ′light-′hearted

Graphical solid or hyphenated spelling BUT: headmaster loudspeaker matchbox head-master head master loud-speaker loud speaker match-box match box textbook, phrase-book, reference book well-, ill- : 34% - separately, 66% hyphenated man-made : 6% - separately, 82% hyphenated, 12% - solid.

Morphological formal integrity of compounds blackbird’s paw, shipwrecks ≠ (the) wreck(s) of (a) ship(s) BUT: sweetheart & sweet heart sweethearts & sweet hearts

Syntactical grass-green very green grass BUT: very ≠ black market black list blue-stocking & blue stocking round-fish & round fish

Semantic the integrity of a compound word tallboy slowcoach BUT: to rain cats & dogs to pull one’s leg

SEMI-AFFIXES man land berry proof worthy like — as the 2 nd element ~ very frequent as 2 nd elements of w-s for a long time (man, berry, land) ~ are unstressed, - [ə] ~ combining activity is very great seaman airman spaceman policeman horseman gentleman

ladylike, unladylike, manlike unbusinesslike, suchlike, noteworthy, praiseworthy, trustworthy, waterproof, shockproof, bombproof, fire-proof, kissproof (about a lipstick) -monger, -wright (<OEmangere—a tradesman, <OEwyrhta—a worker): fictionmonger, fashionmonger, newsmonger, scandalmonger, warmonger—have a strongly disparaging character; playwright, shipwright, wheelwright.

CONVERSION Eye v & eye n -S, -ED, -ING -S, -’S, -S’ difference n > difference v counterattack n > counterattack v discomfort n > discomfort v blacklist n > blacklist v inconvenience n > inconvenience v nightwatch n > nightwatch v

If anybody oranges me again tonight, I’ll knock his face off(O’Henry). Let me say in the beginning that even if I wanted to avoid Texas I could not, for I am wived in Texas & mother-in-lawed & uncled & aunted & cousined within an inch of my life (J. Steinbeck, Travels with Charley).

N →V: to hand, to back, to monkey, to stage, to nose, to room, to honeymoon V→N: a must, a chat, a talk, a fly, a jump, a rush, a make Adj→V: to pale, to cool, to rough, to wet, to blind, to dirty, to narrow, to wrong. But he retained my hand, & I could not free it.

N→V • the action peculiar to that, denoted by N: to ape, to monkey, to wolf, to hound, to father; • to act by means of that, denoted by N: to chain, to finger, to water, to iron, to knife; • to supply, cover with that, denoted by N: to curtain, to dust, to shelter; • to deprive of that, denoted by N: to dust, to skin; • to place to that denoted by N: to table, to pocket, to house, to barrack

V→N • isolated action: jump, move, look; • an acting object / subject: drill, dig, help, switch, tramp; • a place of action: ride, forge, drive, walk, leak, show; • an object / result of action: cut, find, tear, peel, burn, catch, lift Henry Marchand: mostly derogatory: bore, cheat, flirt, scold, tease

SHORTENING / CONTRACTION lab< laboratory, plane< airplane, sub< submarine, subordinate, subway, subaltern, sublieutenant, subscription, subscriber, substitute

1) final clipping (apocope): advert<advertisement, doc<doctor, vegs<vegetables, ed<editor, fab<fabulous, mike<microphone, coke<coca-cola; 2)initial clipping (aphesis): phone<telephone, cute<acute, cause<because, story<history, chute<parachute; 3) medial clipping (syncope): specs<spectacles, maths<mathematics, fancy<fantasy, ma’am<madam; 4) border clipping: tec<detective, flu<influenza, fridge<refrigerator;