- •Seminar 5: Word formation means
- •How can you define the term “abbreviation”?
- •What types of abbreviations do you know?
- •Form words with a negative meaning using in-, un-, il-, dis-, ab-, im-:
- •3. Find cases of conversion in the following sentences:
- •4. Add a preposition from the list below to complete appropriate compound adjectives:
- •5. Pick out compounds in the sentences given below and group them into a) neutral compounds b) morphological compounds c) syntactic compounds.
- •6. Determine the original components of the blends:
- •7. Write out in full the following shortened words. Define the type of shortening.
5. Pick out compounds in the sentences given below and group them into a) neutral compounds b) morphological compounds c) syntactic compounds.
1) It was a do-or-die for me. - отчаянный, SYNTACTICAL
2) We’ll buy him a put-it-together toy.- соедините его с, SYNTACTCAL
3) I don’t need advice from a has-been- от бывшего, NEUTRAL
. 4) Are they hand-and glove friends? - друзья неразлей вода, SYNTACTICAL
5) They are weekending I the country.- отдыхают, MORPHOLOGICAL
6) This dress is not hand-washable.- NEUTRAL
7) She was wearing a light-green dress- NEUTRAL
8) Color-blind people are not allowed to take a driving test.- дольтоники, NEUTRAL
9) he tried to make a getaway- отдых, бегство, убежище, MORPHOLOGICAL
10) these goods are duty-free. - NEUTRAL
11) the material is water-repellant and crease-resistant.- водостойкие и элластичные NEUTRAL
12) A turnback is a cowardly person- NEUTRAL.
13) the demonstrators were teargassed. – были обезврежены слезоточивым газом, NEUTRAL
14) the astronauts were waiting for a countdown. – обратный отсчет, NEUTRAL
15) Who taught you to skin-dive? – NEUTRAL
6. Determine the original components of the blends:
1.Brunch- breakfast and lunch- additive blend
2. Cablegram- [cable + (tele)gram- restrictive blend.
3. dumbfound- [dumb + (con)found.]- restrictive blend
4. flush- ???? additive blend
5. flurry- ????-additive blend
6. swellegant- Both swell and elegant.- additive blend
7. smog- [sm(oke) + (f)og.]- additive blend
8. twirl-???
9. twinight- [twi(light) + night.]-
10. uffish-??
11.windoor- window and door
12.oilitics-??
13.crocogator- crocodile and aligator
14.galumph-[Perhaps blend of gallop and triumph.]
15.slimnastics- slim and gimnastics
16.infortainment
- information and intertaiment.
7. Write out in full the following shortened words. Define the type of shortening.
1. BASIC- is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages whose design philosophy emphasizes ease of use; the name is an acronym from Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. (initial abbreviation)
2. VIP- Very Important Person (initial abbreviation)
3. BBC- The British Broadcasting Corporation (initial abbreviation)
4. UNO- The definition of UNO is "You know"- blending
5. H-bag^ hand-bag- (blending)
6.MP- member of parliament (initial abbreviation)
7. PM- prime minister (initial abbreviation)
8. SALT-???
9. tec- technology (final clipping)
10. ad- advertisement (final clipping)
11. V-day- Valentine's Day or Victory Day
12. mike-??
13. fancy
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