LIN204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Semantic Change, Participle, Present Tense
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Adjecives and some adverbs (2: plural, possessive, present tense, past tense, present pariciple, past pariciple, comparaive, superlaive. Derivaional morphemes create new words by changing the category of the base or changing its meaning, or both. {-ment} derivaional suix; creates nouns from verbs; ex. contain-ment. {-ship} derivaional suix; creates nouns from nouns; ex. fellow-ship. {re-} derivaional preix; ataches to verbs; to do again ; ex. re-kindle. {un-} derivaional preix; ataches to adjecives; not ; un-imaginaive. Some category changes in english involves a change in stress assignment. Facebook: noun; a popular social media site facebook: verb; to look up someone"s personal informaion using facebook; to put something up on. Oh i love this picture, i"ll facebook it. Our brother got three gigs facebooking himself! *this simple shit from noun to verb, without any change in the way the word sounds is called funcional shif, and it is very producive in english worry: verb; to feel concern or anxiety.
