Theme 5 Word -Formation. Affixation. Prefixation. Suffixation. Productivity in Word-formation. Polysemy, Homonymy, Synonymy of Affixes

1.What are the chief processes of English word-formation?

2.What are the minor ways of forming new words?

3.How is word-formation defined?

4.What two types of word-formation may be distinguished in accordance with the structural types of words?

5.What are the two basic ways of forming words in word-derivation?

6.How is word-formation studied diachronically and syncronically?

7.How do you understand the productive ways of forming new words? And non-productive?

8.How can you define productivity of word-building ways, derivational patterns and derivational affixes?

9.How do we define affixation?

10.What two ways of formation of new words does affixation pressupose?

11.How do you understand polysemy, synonymy, homonymy of affixes?

12.How are affixes described from the point of view of their productivity?

Prefixation

1.What is prefixation?

2.What two types of prefixes are distinguished?

3.How are prefixes classified diachronically?

4.How are prefixes classified synchronically?

Suffixation

1.What is suffixation?

2.How are suffixes classified?

Word formation. C onversion. Semantic relations of words within a Conversional Pair.

Word Composition. The Meaning of Compounds.

1.What is the term conversion referred to?

2.What is a word-building means in the case of conversion?

3.How do we define conversion?

4.Why can we describe conversion as a morphological way of forming words?

5.What cases of conversion have been discussed in linguistic literature?

6.Are linguists unanimous in their understanding of conversion?

7.What are the typical semantic relations of words in the conversion pair “Verbs converted from Nouns”?

8.What are the typical semantic relations of words in the conversion pair “Nouns converted from Verbs?”

9.Is conversion a productive way of forming words? Prove your point of view by giving examples.

10.What is traditional conversion? Occasional conversion?

Word-Composition

1.What are compound words?

2.What is a specific feature of the srtructure of a compound word?

3.How can you describe compounds phonetically?

4.What are the specific features of compounds graphically?

5.How can you characterise compounds semantically?

6.How is the meaning of compounds derived?

7.How may we classify compounds from the point of view of productivity?

8.How can we classify compounds according to the degree of semantic independence of their constituents?

9.How can we describe compounds according to the parts of speech?

10.How can we describe compounds according to the means by which components are joined together?

11.How are compounds proper formed?

12.What are derivational compounds?

Theme 6 (self-study)

Non-patterned ways of word-creation

1.Surf the Internet to find reference material which contains information about the non-patterned ways of forming words. Read and learn it to be able to do the next assignment..

2.Give definitions of:

• back-formation,

• clipping,

• blending,

• acronym.

Give examples of words which will illustrate the above ways of word-formation.