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Heads-upsToday (HW5-part 2 due; RR7 due) RR7 Discussion (Stephen & Lyam) Compounding and other ways to form words
Monday (Midterm due) Types of languages (Typology) Syntax! (Ch. 4)
Google Ngram Viewerhttp://books.google.com/ngrams
MORPHOLOGY
Compounding and other word-
formation processes
dishonestbrainlessness
huggabledehumidify
toothache
p. 124 of textbookList of some
common English
affixes and their
properties
bitter-sweet bittersweetface-book Facebook
freeze-dry freeze dry red-neck redneck
white-house White Houseman-cave man cave
spoon-feed spoonfeedman-bear-pig manbearpig
Properties of compounds:• spelling• inseparability• stressTypes of compounds:• endocentric
• exocentric
maple leaf maple leaves big foot big feet
Maple Leaf Maple LeafsBigfoot Bigfoots
sabertooth sabertooths
• headedness• meaning
blending
パーソナル + コンピュータ パソコン paasonaru konpyuuta pasokon
breakfast + lunch brunchhurricane + vacation hurricationpin + interest Pinterest
conversion hug (V) hug (N)friend (N) friend (V)
labszacun
OMG DNA
PINlaser
initialism
laboratory szacunek (PL, ‘respect’)
Oh My God deoxyribonucleic acid
Personal Identification No. light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation
acronym
clippingabbreviation
Joint Photographic Experts Group
laugh out loudAmerican Automobile
Association
JPEGLOLAAA
borrowinganime (JAP) dessin animé (FRE)pomodoro (ITA) pomidor (POL)skyscraper (ENG) gratte-ciel (FRE)
alcoholkindergartenaficionadoyogurtleakbreeze
Arabic German Spanish Turkish Dutch
Portuguese
According to Finkenstaedt & Wolff’s 1973 computerized survey of about 80,000 English words, our words come from:
French and Norman: 28.3%Latin (including scientific and technical Latin): 28.24%Germanic languages (including Old, Middle English): 25%Greek: 5.32%No etymology given or unknown: 4.03%Derived from proper names: 3.28%Other: less than 1%
reanalysishamburger actuality: Hamburg + -er Hamburger (GER) reanalysis: Ham + -burger Hamburger
cockroach actuality: cucaracha (SPA) reanalysis: cock + -roach cockroach
back formationeditor (1649)baby-sitterobsessivesurrealism
to edit (1791) to babysit to obsess surreal
neologisms
Mugglemeh
eponymsGoogle to GoogleCharles Boycott to/a boycottRover rower (‘bicycle’ in POL)
Identify the morph. processes!
friend + enemy frenemybreak + up breakupemotion emoteFederal Bureau of Investigation FBIflirtation + relationship flirtationshipstatistics statsNorth Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATOAnders Celsius Celsius
blendingcompoundbackformati
oninitialismblending clippingacronym
eponym