LINA01H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Retable, Towel, Broccoli
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Today"s learning goals: identify word formation processes, identify lexical categories of words, connect ps rules with ps trees, apply constituency tests. Word formation processes are ways to create new words how to form new words from existing words. Ex. act actor: backformation removes an affix goes from a longer word to a shorter word. Acronyms: formed by taking the initial letters of the words in a phrase or title and pronouncing them as a word. Initialism: formed by taking the initial letters of the words in a phrase or title and pronouncing them as a series of letters. Eponyms9. 2: words created from people"s names, ex. Sandwich earl of sandwich used to like eating sandwiches with 1 hand while playing card games with the other. List of word formation processes: reduplication, backformation, compounds, suppletion, conversion, clipping, blends, acronyms, initialism, coinage, eponyms, derivation, inflection.
