1.What do you mean when you say you know a word?
2 a).What is a morpheme?
b)Explain the types of morpheme.Give examples.
3.Explain affixes.Give examples.
4.Explain and give example of homophones/homonyms.
5.Explain and give examples of how English language has increased it vocabulary over the years.
6.Explain and give examples of function/content words.
1.What do you mean when you say you know a word?
ReplyDeleteYou briefly know how it sounds, little idea on how to spell it out and the meaning of the word. We would also able to relate it with our mental lexicon. For example, when we say the word 'love', we will relate it to care, romantic, amazing, enjoyment, etc...It depends on how we say it or with different tone.
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a).What is a morpheme?
Morpheme is the smallest linguistics unit that has a meaning or grammatical function. A morpheme may or may not stand alone. For example, the word "unbreakable" has three morphemes: "un-", a bound morpheme; "break", a free morpheme; and "-able", a bound morpheme.
b)Explain the types of morpheme.Give examples.
There are 4 types of morphemes.
(i)Free morphemes
Morphemes that can stand alone as words. eg: town, dog.
(ii)Bound morphemes
Morphemes that always attach to other morphemes, never existing as words themselves. Bound morphemes in general tend to be prefixes and suffixes.
eg:
(Prefix) un - safe
(Suffix) comfort - able
(iii)Derivational morphemes
- can be added to a word to create (derive) another word, for example, the addition of "-ness" to "happy," for example, to give "happiness." They carry semantic information.
(iv)Inflectional morphemes
- modify a word's tense, number, aspect, and so on, without deriving a new word or a word in a new grammatical category (as in the "dog" morpheme if written with the plural marker morpheme "-s" becomes "dogs"). They carry grammatical information.
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3.Explain affixes.Give examples.
An affix is a morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word.Prefix and suffix are extremely common terms.
(i)Prefix
- A prefix is a word part added to the beginning of a root word. A prefix changes the meaning of a word.
eg, im-proper, in-complete
(ii)Suffix
- A suffix is a word part added to the end of a word.
eg, use-less, break-able
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4.Explain and give example of homophones/homonyms.
Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings.
For example,
hear - here
some - sum
cite - site
threw - through
read - red
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5.Explain and give examples of how English language has increased it vocabulary over the years.
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i)borrow
ii)blends/compounds
iii)create
iv)affixes
v)acronyms
Briefly, vocabulary can change quickly as new words are borrowed from other languages, or as words get combined or shortened. Some words are even created by mistake. As noted in the Linguistic Society of America's publication Is English Changing?, pea is one such example. Up until about 400 years ago, pease referred to either a single pea or many peas. At some point, people mistakenly assumed that the word pease was the plural form of pea, and a new word was born. While vocabulary can change quickly, sentence structure as the order of words in a sentence changes more slowly. It’s clear that today’s English speakers construct sentences very differently from Chaucer and Shakespeare’s contemporaries. Changes in sound are somewhat harder to document, but at least as interesting. For example, during the so-called “Great Vowel Shift” 500 years ago, English speakers modified their vowel pronunciation dramatically. This shift represents the biggest difference between the pronunciations of so called Middle and Modern English.
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6.Explain and give examples of function/content words.
Content words
- content words are open class words (new
words are being added in every language)
- it includes:
'Nouns'(John,room..)
'Adjectives'(happy,new..)
'Full verbs'(search,grow..)
'Adverbs'(very, really..)
'Numerals'(one,first..)
'Interjections'(eh,well..)
'Yes/No'(yes,no >as answer)
Function words
- function words are closed class words (only
about 300 in English)
- it includes:
'Prepositions'(of,at..)
'Pronouns'(he,they..)
'Determiners'(the,a..)
'Conjunctions'(and,when..)
'Modal verbs'(can,must..)
'Auxiliary verbs'(be,have..)
'Particles'(no,nor..)
1. Basically when we said we knew the particular word are usually when we are familiar with a word, we know how to use the word and how to pronouns the particular word. Moreover, we also know when we should use the word.
ReplyDelete2. (a) Morpheme is the smallest meaningful unit in the word. A morpheme may or may not stand alone and one or several morphemes compose a word.
(b) Morphemes divided into two which is free morpheme and bound morpheme. A free morpheme is a grammatical unit that can occur by itself such as such as , , , and . Bound morphemes are meaning-bearing units of language, such as prefixes and suffixes which are attached to unbound morphemes. They cannot stand alone. For an example: ‘im’ in ‘impossible’
3. Affixes are a morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word. Affixes are divided into several categories, depending on their position with reference to the stem which is prefixes and suffixes. A prefixes is an element placed at the beginning of a word to adjust or qualify its meaning, for example de-, non-, and re-. However, a suffix is an element placed at the end of a word to form a derivative such as –ation, -fy, -ing, frequently one that convert the stem into another part of speech.
4. Homophone is a word that is pronounces the same as another word but different in meaning. The word may spell the same such as rose (flower) and rose (past tense of ‘rise’) or carat, caret, and carrot. The term "homophone" may also apply to units longer or shorter than words such as phrases, letters or groups of letters that are pronounced the same as another phrase, letter or group of letters. Example of homophones:
o Beet, beat
o Through, threw
o Ate, eight
o Tee, tea
o See, sea
o Led, lead
o Weight, wait
o Hear, here
o To, two
o Bear, bare
o Fowl, foul
o Waist, waste
o Staid, stayed
o Root, route
o Manor, manner
5. English language has increased it vocabulary or acquire new words over the years through:
ReplyDelete(a) Borrow (words from other parts of the world. The English language has an enormous amount of words that have been borrowed from other languages.
o Hindi - bungalow, jungle, shampoo, thug
o Persian - check, checkmate, chess
o Chinese - ketchup, tea, ginseng
(b) Blends (Blend words are the words that are crunched together to form new words. Knowing the origin of each word can be a help to spellers .words which are comprised of parts from two other words)
o Brunch --------- breakfast + lunch
o Glimmer-------- gleam + shimmer
o Moped --------- motor + pedal
o Motel ----------- motor + hotel
o Motorcade ---- motor + cavalcade
o Smash --------- smack + mash
o Smog ----------- smoke + fog
o Splatter -------- splash + spatter
o Squiggle ------- squirm + wriggle
o Telethon ------- television + marathon
o Twirl ------------ twist + whirl
(c) Affixes are a morpheme or base word that is attached to a word stem to form a new word. Affixes are divided into several categories, depending on their position with reference to the stem which is prefixes and suffixes.
- Prefixe: ReTurn, ReView, MisUnderstand, AbNormal.
- Suffixe: washES, biggER, runnER, thankFUL
- Prefixe and suffixe: UnbelieveAble, MisunderstandIng
(d) Acronyms (a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words)
BRB : Be right back
EMS : Environment Management System
TRIPS : Trade-related Intellectual Property Rights Trade
(e) Create
Apple: a round fruit that grows on trees
Beef: meat from a cow
Boom: period of economic growth
Banging: making a loud noise
6. Function words belong to the closed class of words in grammar in that it is very uncommon to have new function words created in the course of speech, whereas in the open class of words that is, nouns, verbs, adjectives, or adverbs and new words may be added readily such as slang words, technical terms, and adoptions and adaptations of foreign words. Words that are not function words are called content words (or open class words include nouns, verbs, adjectives, and most adverbs.
Example of function word (close word):
• Nouns (e.g: dog, house), verbs (e.g: to go, to see), and adjectives (e.g: green, nice)
Example of content word (open word):
• Prepositions'(of,at..)
• 'Conjunctions'(and,when..)
Try to give different answers...don't repeat the same answers...
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1.) What do you mean when you say you know a word?
When we say we know a word, this means that we already have that particular word in our mental lexicon storage,this is when we are able to image the picture or sound of the particular word. For an example, the word "apple" would make us imagine the colour and the image of an "apple".
Besides, when we say we know a particular word, this means that we know the proper meaning, spelling, sound or pronunciation we should also know how to use and apply that particular word.
When an unfamiliar word is introduced to us we tend to say we don't know that word maybe because the word is simply not stored in our mental lexicon, and because we don't know the meaning or other necessary elements which are required for us to recognise the word.
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2.)
a) What is a morpheme?
A morpheme is the smallest meaningful unit in the grammar of a language.
b) Explain the types of morpheme. Give examples.
Morphemes may be classified, on the basis of word formation, characteristics into the following types:
• Root
simple structure, made up of a single morpheme; a basis for compounding and affixation. It can be either Bound Morpheme or Free Morpheme.
• Stem
may be complex, made up of one or more morphemes; a basis for affixation. It can be either Bound Morpheme or Free Morpheme.
• Affix
a simple structure of morpheme that can be categorized into:
o prefix
o infix
o suffix
o suprafix
o simulfix
o circumfix
*This morpheme can be Bound Morpheme but it cannot be Free Morpheme
• Clitic
a simple structure of morpheme which always phonologically being formed as Bound Morpheme and Being formed as Free Morpheme syntactically.
o proclitic
o enclitic
Note: A clitic is a kind of morpheme that does not fit well in the above classification system because it is phonologically bound but syntactically free.
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3.) Explain affixes. Give examples.
An affix is a morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word. Affixes may be derivational, like English -ness and pre-, orinflectional, like English plural -s and past tense -ed. They are bound morphemes by definition; prefixes and suffixes may be separable affixes. Affixation is, thus, the linguistic process speakers use to form new words (neologisms) by adding morphemes (affixes) at the beginning (prefixation), the middle (infixation) or the end (suffixation) of words.
Affixes can be categorized into:
Prefix: Appears at the front of a stem
Eg: un-DO
Suffix/Postfix: Appears at the back of a stem
Eg: LOOK-ing
Infix: Appears within a stem — common in Borneo-Philippines languages
Eg: Minne‹FLIPPIN'›sota
Circumfix: One portion appears at the front of a stem, and the other at the rear
Eg: a›SCATTER‹ed
Simulfix: Changes a segment of a stem
Eg: mOUse → mIce
Suprafix: Changes a suprasegmental phoneme of a stem
Eg:
PROduce (noun)
proDUCE (verb)
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4.) Explain and give example of homophones/homonyms.
Homophones or Homonyms are the words that have same sounds with different meaning.
Eg:
above/over garbage/trash raise/lift
auto/car woman/lady stone/rock
large/big infant/baby street/road
small/tiny shut/close near/close
stop/cease own/possess reply/answer
exit/leave false/untrue happy/glad
Continue....
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5.) Explain and give examples of how English language has increased it vocabulary over the years.
When people started to communicate, language had needed however, there are quite a number of reasons on how how English language has increased it vocabulary over the years. I had classified the types of the words being created as below:
Borrow:
1. Alcohol=liquor(Arabic)
2. Paradise=heaven(Avestan)
3. Magic(Avestan)
Blends:
1. Fantabulous [blend of "fantastic" & "tabulous"]
2. Juneteenth [blend of "June" & "nineteenth"]
3. Airbill [blend of "air" & "waybill" ]
4. Manglish [blend of "Malaysia" & "English"]
5. Singlish [blend of "Singapore" & "English"]
Compounds:
1. Guest House [A private house offering accommodations to paying guests]
2. Aftershaves [An astringent, typically scented lotion for applying to the skin after shaving]
3. Ballroom [a large room, as in a hotel or resort, with a polished floor for dancing]
Affixes:
1. Prefix= unhappy(sad)-adj
2. Suffix= happiness(pleasure, joy/the quality or state of being happy.)-noun
Acronyms:
1. SARS–Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
2. DVD-Digital Video Disk ); Digital Versatile Disk )
3. UTAR-University Tun Abdul Rahman
Create:
1. Browse
Actually, this word means "To inspect something leisurely". However, nowadays people commonly use this word as the meaning of "To look for information or read website casually on the Internet"
2. Hack-To cut or chop with repeated and irregular blows
This word is now commonly used as the meaning of "Informal To alter a computer programme" or " To gain access to (a computer file or network) illegally or without authorization".
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6.) Explain and give examples of function/content words.
Function words are closed class words (only about 300 in English) while content words are open class words (new words are being added in every language).
Examples:
FUNCTION WORDS:
Prepositions
of, at, in, without, between
Pronouns
he, they, anybody, it, one
Determiners
the, a, that, my, more, much, either, neither
Conjunctions
and, that, when, while, although, or
Modal verbs
can, must, will, should, ought, need, used
Auxilliary verbs
be (is, am, are), have, got, do
Particles
no, not, nor, as
CONTENT WORDS
Nouns
John, room, answer, Selby
Adjectives
happy, new, large, grey
Full verbs
search, grow, hold, have
Adverbs
really, completely, very, also, enough
Numerals
one, thousand, first
Interjections
eh, ugh, phew, well
Yes/No answers
yes, no (as answers)
Hye & Assalamualaikum wbt everyone...
ReplyDeleteWhen you say you know the words, you must briefly know the sound of that words, how to pronounce that words, the meanings of the words and when and how we can use it.
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Morphemes is a smallest linguistic units. A morpheme can stand alone and may not stand alone,
for example- Free morpheme can stand alone because there already have meanings such as "understand".
but, bound morpheme that can be prefix and suffix can't stand alone. Such as "mis-" for prefix. "-ing" for suffix. Combine together will produce word of " misunderstanding".
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Type of Morpheme;
1) Free morpheme- can stand alone, have meanings-for example "believe".
2) Bound morpheme- Prefix- can't stand alone.
must be together with another word to have a meaning. For example "un-".
3)Bound morpheme- Suffix- (same with prefix), for example- "-able".
4) Derivational morpheme- can be add to create or produce another words, such as "happy"
by adding "-ness" become a word "happiness".
5)Inflectional morpheme - modify a word tense, number, aspect and others without create a new word. For example- "dog" by adding -s become "dogs".
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Affixes- linguistic stem to form a new words.
affixes can be prefix and suffix, prefix to the beginning of a root words, such as "im-" "-in" and others.
suffix word part that added to the end of the word, such as "-less" "-able" and others.
both of them is work to produce a new word.
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homophones/ homonyms;
Have same sound but different meaning and spelling.
for examples;
knew - new
sail - sale
saw - sore
blew - blue
soul - sole
pail - pale
too - two
buy - bye
son - sun
boy - buoy
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English Language has increased it vocabulary by;
1) Borrow the words. for example
Arabic- gazelle, giraffe, harem, hashish, lute, minaret, mosque, myrrh, salaam, sirocco, sultan, vizier, bazaar.
Sanskrit- avatar, karma, swastika, yoga .
Hindi- bandanna, bangle, bungalow, chintz, cot, cummerbund,jungle, loot, nabob, pajamas, punch (the drink), shampoo.
2)Blends the words;
bash- bang + smash
because- by + cause
bit- binary + digit
intercom- internal + communication
modem- modulator + demodulator
motel- motor + hotel
chortle- chuckle + snort
chump- chunk + lump
clash- clap + crash
ditsy- dizzy + dotty
glitz- glamour + Ritz
goon- gorilla + baboon
3)Affixes- prefix- Return
suffix- bigger
prefix + suffix - unbelievable, misunderstand
4) Acronyms- a word formed from the initial letters, such as
P&C- Private and confidential.
5) Create- for example;
bagging- making a loud noise.
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morphemes is a smallest unit of word.
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dangerously = 3morphemes
1)Gentleman = 2morphemes
2)Gentlemanly = 3morphemes
3)ungentlemanly = 4morphemes
4)ungentlemanilness = 5 morphemes
when you know a word
ReplyDelete1) it in our mental lexican
2)we heard about it
3)know the meaning
4)the pronounciation
5)the spelling
6)use of the word for noun ,verb , adjective
An affix is a morpheme that is attached to a base morpheme to form a word. An affix can be a
ReplyDeleteaffixes are.........
prefix (something attached at the front), a suffix (attached at the back), an infix (in between) or a circumfix (two parts, one in front, the other at the back). Affixes are Bound morphemes by definition. Affixes are essential in agglutination.
ex:establish (verb) + -ment (suffix) --> establishment (noun).
homonymsis different word /same sound
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eight/ate
patient/patient
book/book
bee/be
son/sun
blue/blew
Homonyms = Two words that sound the same but the spelling and possibly meaning are different.
ReplyDeleteexamples: 1.to,too,two
2.whos,who's
3.past,passed
4.blue,blew
5.sight,site
6.principal,principale
7.its,it's
My research on content and function words:
ReplyDeletecontent words(nouns,verb, adj,adverbs)
these words denote concepts such as object, actions that we can think eg: children, soar and purple.
content words known as open class because we can regularly add new words to these classes.
through internet revolution, new words entered as download, email and mouse.
Function words are called close class words.
do not have clear lexical meaning or obvious concept associated with them.
eg: and, or , but( conjunctions)
in , of ( preposition)
it, he ( pronouns)
all these words have grammatical functions.
eg: the article indicate whether a noun is definite or indefinite - THE boy / A boy.
Hi everybody.............
ReplyDelete1. What do you mean when you say you know a word....
When we say that we know a word its means by the correct choice of a word based on a decision that it just “sounded right”
We can confirm that this is the valid reason to use the word and we also familiar with that word.
2. (a)what is a morpheme?
Morpheme is a smallest or minimal units of the word.
Also known as smallest meaningful unit in the grammar of the language.
(b)Explain the types of morpheme. Give examples..
Thera are 5 types of morpheme :-
Free morphemes -can stand alone. Egs:happy, dog, table
Bound morpheme function as a word part. Egs:un...tele...er...
Derivational –can be added to a word to create another word. Egs:happy’ness’
Inflectional- modify a word’s tense,number, aspect. Egs:dogs(plural morphemes)
Allomorphs are variants of a morpheme. Egs: /-z/, /-s/ or /-ɨz/.
3. Explain affixes. Give examples.
An affixe is a morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word
An affix is a bound morpheme that is joined before, after or within a root or stem
Here are some kind of affixes :-
Infix
Prefix
Suffix
Circumfix
Simulfix
Suprafix
Separable affix
Derivational affix
Inflectional affix
For example :-
Prefix : bicycle, biography, automobile, minimarket, midlife
Suffix : comfortable, appraisal, assistant, relevant, sexuality
4. Explain and give example of homophones/homonymes.
Homophones is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning.
Egs: rose (flower), rose(past tense of rise)
Maybe spelled the same
Homonymes is inthe strict sense, one of a group words that share the same spelling and the same pronounciation but have diffrent meanings.
For e egs :
Blew-blue
Road-rode
Seen-scene
Site-sight
Seam-seem
5. Explain and give examples of how english language has increase its vocabulary over the years.
Egs : by :-
Borrow : circle (latin),fashion (french), algebra (arabic)
Compounds :daydream,grandparents, outgoing,roadway,underworld
Affixes : reappraise(prefix), responsibly (suffix)
Acronymes : LAN (Local Area Network), AIDS (Acquired immune defeciency syndrom)
Create : Mozila, Pentium, Google
6. Explain and give example of function/ content words.
Function words means grammatical words or structure or class words that have little lexical meaning or includes determiners, conjunctions and prepositions.
Egs :-
Prepositions : of ,at, in, without, between
Determiners : that,my,more,much,either
Conjunction : when, while, although,or
Content words egs :-
Nouns : james, room, answer
Adjectives : happy, large, brown
Adverbs : very,completely, also, enough
1.What do you mean when you say you know a word?
ReplyDeleteBeing able to define the word, the usage of the word, pronunciation of the word, and mental lexicon of the word.
2 a).What is a morpheme? 3. Explain the types of morpheme .Give examples.
A morpheme is the smallest unit which carries meaning. Different kinds of morphemes: Bound and Free Morphemes:
Bound: A bound morpheme is a morpheme that cannot stand alone as an independent word, but must be attached to another morpheme/word. E.g: ship MENT : police intercepted a shipment of arms. A Symmetrical: my ruler is asymmetrical.
Free: A free morpheme is a morpheme that can stand alone as an independent word (e.g. ‘Car, church, Person, House').
4.Explain affixes. Give examples.
A word element (morpheme). For example, a prefix, suffix, or infix which can be attached to a base or root to form a new word.
No affix: stand, eat, book
Prefix(an affix that is joined before a root or stem)- Eg: under-stand, over-eat
Suffix(is an affix that is attached to the end of a root or stem)- Eg: stand-ing, eat-s, book-s
Infix( an affix that is inserted within a root or stem)- Eg: bloomin of abso-bloomin-lutely
5.Explain and give example of homophones/homonyms.
Homophones are words that have exactly the same sound (pronunciation) but different meanings and (usually) spelling.
For example;
(air-heir, aisle-isle, ante-anti, eye-I, bare-bear, be-bee, brake-break, by-buy, cell-sell, cent-scent, cereal-serial, course-coarse, complement-compliment, dam-damn, dear-deer, dye-die, fair-fare, for-four, hair-hare, heal-heel, hour-our, idle-idol, in-inn, knight-night, knot-not, know-no, made-maid, mail-male, meat-meet, piece-peace, plane-plain, poor-pour, pray-prey, sew-so, sight-site, some-sum, sole-soul, son-sun, root-route, waist-waste, to-too, weak-week, wear-where, toe-tow, suite-sweet, shore-sure,…)
1. when you you know a word it means that, immediately you will have a rough picture of the word in your mental lexicon. you should able to pronouns the word in proper pronunciation. besides that, you must know the correct spelling of the word. each of the word will carry a meaning, therefore we must able to know the usage of the word and how to use it. besides that, we should also know how to use the word as noun, verb and adjective..
ReplyDelete2.a) morpheme is the smallest unit of the word that carries a meaning for the word. usually morpheme refers to a single or root word.this means a morpheme can stand by it own without any prefix or suffix. an example of morpheme is write, boy, girl,book and so on. a small morpheme cannot breakable anymore.
2.b)there are two types of morpheme " free morpheme" and " bound morpheme".
free morphemes are morphemes that can stand by its own as a single words.it means that any prefix or suffix are not allowed to be add in the word. example of free morpheme are boy, girl, happy and so on...
bound morphemes are morphemes that cannot stand by their own.. therefore it shows that bound morphemes are morphemes that will attached to prefix and suffix. example of bound morphemes are writing, unforgettable, shining, drawing and so on..
3. An affix is a morpheme that is attached to a word to bring or form a new word. prefix and suffix are included in affix:
prefix are morpheme that will be added on the beginning the word... example of prefixes are:
unhappy, misunderstand, misbehave, dislike, disagree impatient and so on..
suffixes are morpheme that will be added in the end of a word.. example of suffixes are happily, foolishness, workable, brainless and sadness..
4. homophones or homonyms are the words that have same sounds but carries different meaning for the words.. for example:
ReplyDelete1) blew, blue
2) dear,deer
3) sole,soul
4)son,sun
How does a language increase its vocabulary?
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Borrowed words means that certain words will be taken from another part of language. For instance, in English language they borrow words from Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Spanish and so on.
Examples of words that borrowed from other languages are as follows:
French: ambulance, diplomat, parachute, sauce
Malay: amok, bamboo, gong, orang-utan
Sanskrit: Orange, avatar, karma, yoga
Hindi: jungle, shampoo, bangle, bungalow
Arabic: sultan, bazaar, giraffe
Persian: check, checkmate, chess
Japanese: sushi, tsunami, samurai, karaoke
Spanish: tornado, guitar
Blends
Blends deal with the action of abridging and then combining various lexemes to form a new word.
Here are few samples of blends….
Motor + hotel= motel
Wiki + dictionary= wiktionary
Smoke + fog= smog
Spoon + fork= spork
Simultaneous + broadcast= simulcast
Abort + mortuary= abortuary
Agriculture + business= agribusiness
Advert + entertainment= advertainment
Medical + care= medicare
Awesome + fantastic= awesometastic
Anagram + mnemonic= anamonic
Compound
A compound is a lexeme (less precisely, a word) that consists of more than one stem. Compounding or composition is the word-formation that creates compound lexemes (the other word-formation process being derivation.
In simple word, we can say that compound words known as two words that will be combined together to create a new meaning of the word.
Examples of compound:
Airman
Airport
Airship
Backdrop
Background
Chairman
Championship
Checkmate
Hardware
Highway
Acronyms
Acronyms are formed using the initial components in a phrase or name.
Examples of acronyms:
AIDS: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
USA: United States of America
ASAP: As soon as possible
TEFL: Teaching English as a Foreign Language
TESOL: Teaching English as a Second Language
CALL: Computer Assisted Language Learning
ESL: English as a Second Language
Affixes
An affix is a morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word. An affix is a bound morpheme that is joined before, after, or within a root or stem.
A suffix (also sometimes called a postfix or ending) is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word.
Few examples of suffix:
er- teacher
able- unbelievable
ous- dangerous
ness- happiness
ful- wonderful
Examples of prefix:
anti= anti-fungal, antidepressant
auto= autograph, automobile
un= unconvincing, unnatural, unprepared
Create
Create means is inventing or creating a new words which have its own meaning. For example, those days ‘mouse’ is only known as a kind of animal. But nowadays it is also known as a component in computers. So, this means that words also will be created as the world is changing.
Examples of new words:
Facebook
Website
Webpage
Mozila
Pentium
6.function word are called as closed words and content words re called as open words..Function words (or grammatical words) are words that have little lexical meaning or have ambiguous meaning. example of function words are determiners, conjunctions, and prepositions.
ReplyDeletecontent words are set of ordinary noun, adjectives and verbs that we think of the word that carry the content of the message in the sentences... this means that it will bring a meaning for the whole sentences either it can be noun, verb or adjectives.. we still can understand a sentences just by reading or using contend words only...
1. What do you mean when you say you know a word?
ReplyDeleteWhen we say we know a word, it means we know the proper meaning, spelling, sound or pronunciation, where and when to apply.
2. a) What is morpheme?
A morpheme is the smallest meaningful unit in the grammar of a language.
b) Explain the types of morpheme. Give examples?
Free morphemes are morphemes which can stand alone. Example, book, mouse and cake. Bound morphemes like, “un-”, appear only together with other morphemes. Bound morphemes in general tend to be prefixes and suffixes. Derivational morphemes can be added to a word to create another word. Example, happiness. Inflectional morphemes modify a word’s tense, number, aspect, and so on. without deriving a new word or a new grammatical category. Example, dog dogs. Allomorphs are variants of morpheme.
3. Explain affixes. Give example.
Affix is a bound morpheme that is joined before, after, or within a root or stem. Prefix is an element placed at the beginning of a word. Suffix is an element placed at the end of a word. Example for prefix, unhappy and example for suffix, looking.
4. Explain and give examples of homophones/homonyms.
A homophones is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but different in meaning. The words may be the same in spelling. Example rose (a flower) and rose (past tense of rise).
5. Explain and give examples of how English language has increased it vocabulary over the years.
Borrow, blends, compound, create, affixes and acronyms. Borrowed also known as loanword, Loanwords are words adapted by the speakers of one language from a different language. Blends or also known as portmanteau is one derived by combining portions of two or more separate words. A compound word is made when two words are joined to form a new word. Create means creating a word that is not existing. Affixes are a base word that is attached to a word stem to form a new word. Acronym is a word formed from the initial letter or letters of each at the successive parts or major parts of the compound term.
6. Explain and give examples of function/content words.
Function word is a word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has a little identifiable meaning. Example, articles, pronouns, ad positions, conjunctions, auxiliary, verbs, interjection, particles, expletives, and pro-sentence. Content words are words to which an independent meaning can be assigned. Example, nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.