WORD FORMATION 1 Affixation Classification of morphemes

WORD FORMATION • 1. Affixation. Classification of morphemes. Types of affixes. Types of derivatives. • 2. Conversion. Criteria of derivation in conversion. Semantic relations within conversion pairs.

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WORD FORMATION/DERIVATION • Is a process of coining new words that either belong to another part of speech or just acquire a new lexical meaning. • MAIN TYPES OF DERIVATION: • • AFFIXATION CONVERSION COMPOUNDING SHORTENING

AFFIXATION • IS THE PROCESS OF COINING NEW WORDS BY ADDING AFFIXES/AN AFFIX TO A ROOT MORPHEME

Morphemes • A morpheme (from Greek ‘morphe’‘form’, -eme’ -‘smallest’) is the smallest meaningful unit.

CLASSIFICATION OF MORPHEMES • According to the role morphemes play in constructing words: NON-ROOT/ AFFIXES RADICALS • A root morpheme is the lexical nucleus of a word common to a set of words which is characterized by a highly individual lexical meaning. • Non-root morphemes include only affixational morphemes.

Depending on the process(word building form building) they participate in • affixational morphemes are subdivided into functional/ inflectional derivational • According to their position in a word derivational morphemes can be split into Prefixes Suffixes Un-known heart-less

Depending on the degree of freedom of use morphemes fall into free bound semi-free/ semi-bound • Free morphemes coincide with a stem or a word form and may occur independently or in sentences: sport – sport-ive, teach – teach-er, job – job-less. • A bound morpheme occurs only as a constituent part of a word and cannot function independently: usually these are affixes: agreeable, activity, but some roots are also bound: cour-age, nat-ion, etc. • Semi-bound or semi-free morphemes are those that can function in a morphemic sequence both as an affix and as a free morpheme: well-, half-, ill- as in well-known, ill-mannered, half-prepared

Pseudomorphemes • In the words like retain, contain, receive, perceive the speaker feels that they consist of 2 morphemes. But re- in retain does not have any lexical meaning similar to re- in rewrite. • Such morphemes, which are constituent elements or a word but devoid of any lexical meaning, are called pseudo- or quasimorphemes.

Unique morphemes • In the words like cranberry, gooseberry, raspberry, etc, 2 morphemes are clearly perceived but only ‘berry’ is said to have a lexical meaning while the 2 nd element of the words can’t be used independently, have no lexical meaning and is used only to differentiate the words of the same root. • These morphemes are called unique.

TYPES OF MEANING PROPER TO MORPHEMES: • Lexical meaning; • Lexico-grammatical of- speech) meaning; • Differential meaning; • Distributional meaning; • Grammatical meaning. (part-

PRINCIPLES TO CLASSIFY AFFIXES • ETYMOLOGICAL: native/borrowed: E. g. , native: -er, -ness, -dom, -ful, -ish, -en, etc. borrowed: Latin –ion, -ate, -ute, -ct, -al, etc. , French –ance, -ment, -age, -ess, -ous; en-, etc. • PART OF SPEECH REFERENCE : N-forming, Vforming, Adj –forming, Adv-forming; • FREQUENCY OF USE: frequent/non-frequent (number of words); productive/non-productive (used or not in neologisms): -er, -ing, -ism, -ist/-th, -hood, -en

DERIVATIONAL TYPES OF WORDS • SIMPLE/DERIVED • SIMPLE= root words • DERIVED words/derivatives: affixal, conversive, compound, shortened words

2. CONVERSION • The process of coining a new word in a different part of speech and with a different distribution characteristic but without adding any derivative element, so that the basic form of the original and the basic form of the derived words are homonymous, is usually called conversion.

• The main reason for the widespread development of conversion in Modern English is the absence of morphological elements serving as classifying signals or, in other words, of formal signs marking the part of speech to which the word belongs

THE PARTS OF SPEECH AFFECTED BY CONVERSION • VERBS are made from NOUNS: to hand, to face, to stage, to room, to dog, to blacklist; • NOUNS are made from VERBS: a do, a run, a catch, a must; • VERBS are made from ADJECTIVES: to pale, to cool, to yellow, to grey; • NOUNS are made from ADJECTIVES (substantivation): a relative, native, Christian, liberal, the rich, poor, unemployed • Other parts of speech: to down, to near, the ins and outs, ups and downs, etc.

SEMANTIC RELATIONS/ASSOCIATIONS IN CONVERSION PAIRS noun-verb: • Name of an animal=>behavior typical of it: to dog, to wolf, to fox, to ape; • Name of a tool/part of a body=>actions performed by it: to hammer, to comb, to hand, • Name of a profession=>actions typical of it: to nurse, to cook, to maid, to groom; • Name of a place=>the process of occupying it: to room, to house, to cage; • Name of a container=>the act of putting sth in it: to pocket, to can, to bottle; • Name of a meal=>the process of taking it: to lunch, to supper.

SEMANTIC RELATIONS/ASSOCIATIONS IN CONVERSION PAIRS verb-noun: • Nouns derived from verbs name: • the process or a specific instanced of it: to hunt – a hunt, to knock – a knock, to run – a run; • result or the object of the verbal action : a burn, cut, find, lift, offer; • the place where the action occurs: a drive, forge, stand, walk; • the doer of the action: a scold “a scolding woman”, a tease “a person who teases”, a bore, cheat, flirt.