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)

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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