Word formation - Morphology and Syntax

Universidad Centroamericana Jose Simeon Cañas

Morphology and Syntax

Professor: Victor Mejia Email: vmejia@uca.edu.sv

Word Formation

LET'S GET STARTED!

WHAT IS A WORD?

A word of a spoken language can be defined as the smallest sequence of phonemes that can be uttered in isolation with objective or practical meaning

WORD FORMATION

COINAGE

NEOLOGISM

ETYMOLOGY

BLENDING

COMPOUNDING

BORROWING

WORD FORMATION

CLIPPING

CONVERSION

BACKFORMATION

ACRONYM

DERIVATION

LET'S PRACTICE

Word Formation

Start

Can you identify the different word-formation processes involved in producing each of the underlined words in these sentences?

Don’t they ever worry that they might get AIDS?

Etymology

Acronym

Derivation

Yeah!

Next question

Do you have a xerox machine?

Clipping

Blending

Coinage

Yeah!

Next question

That’s really fandamntastic!

Infix

Prefix

Suffix

Yeah!

Next question

Shiel still parties every Saturday night.

Compounding

Backformation

Borrowing

Yeah!

Next question

These new skateboards from Zee Designs are kickass.

Compounding

Borrowing

Coinage

Yeah!

Next question

When I’m ill, I want to see a doc, not a vet.

Etymology

Acronym

Clipping

Yeah!

Next question

The house next door was burgled when I was babysitting the Smiths’ children.

Backformation

Conversion

Borrowing

Yeah!

Next question

I like this old sofa – it’s nice and comfy.

Conversion/calque

Borrowing/hypocorism

Clipping/hypocorism

Yeah!

Next question

I think Robyn said she’d like a toastie for brekky.

Conversion

Hypocorisms

Compounding

Yeah!

Next question

I don't like John that much! He's like our frenemy. You never know how he's gona act!

Coinage

Borrowing

Blending

Yeah!

Results

Oh no!

Try again

Oh no!

Try again

Results

0-4 Correct

5-7 Correct

8-10 Correct

Play again

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Before you go, complete this short quiz on prefixes and suffixes.

THANKS!