LING 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Syntactic Category, Word Formation, Linguistic Universal
5 Feb 2017
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Other word formation processes: compounding, new words can be formed by putting together other words to create compound words. This is a very productive process: usually when two words belong to one category, the newly formed compound will be the category of both words. Etc: when both words in the compound belong to two different categories, the class of the second or final word will be the category of the compound word. Compounding is common to most if not all languages and can be considered a language universal. Professor gomez: conversion is a type of derivational process in which a word changes its syntactic category. Professor gomez: this process refers to words created for some purpose. Usually brand names become accepted and used frequently (coined) into the language. For example, we may use the word kleenex instead of tissue: eponyms, these are words derived from proper names, and some examples include diesel from rudoph.
