ATS1338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Empathy, Word Formation, Lexeme
9 Aug 2018
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Speakers take away the affix (e. g. edit from editor ), therefore meaning that they. Backform new creations. (complex form of [x+affix] can exist before the simple form of [x]; or the simple form might have dropped out of use) E. g. empath from empathic to verse from versus (8) conversion (also called zero-derivation) Changes one part of speech to another without anything being added. E. g. to toilet-paper - cover with toilet paper". Verb noun ( a guess; a think ) Noun verb ( to bottle; to bridge ) Adjective verb ( to better; to empty ) Adjective noun ( a weekly; a regular ) More difficult in language whose words carry grammatical affixes (9) commonization. Names sometimes lose the capital letter, entering the general lexicon as household words. Google becoming verbed; to google (illustrates conversion and commonization due to the phrase referring to any search, not just a google search)
