LECTURE 5. Word Building.

Conversion

________ consists in making a new word from some existing word by changing the category of a part of speech, the morphemic shape of the original word remains the same.

Roots

What are main morphemic vehicle of a given idea in a given language and at a given stage of the development? Answer with a single words or term.

Nouns

What are frequently made from verbs? Answer with a single words or term.

Verbs

________ can also be made from adjectives.

Derivational affixes

________ serve to supply the stem with components of the lexical and lexicogrammatical meaning and thus form different words.

suffix

What is a derivational morpheme standing before the root and modifying meaning? Answer with a single words or term.

morpheme

What is not an autonomous unit of the language though it is also an association of a given meaning with a given sound form? Answer with a single words or term.

interfix

What is an affix placed within the word (Anglosaxon)

paradigm

What is the system of grammatical forms, characteristics of a word? Answer with a single words or term.

Affixes

What are units of the words structure which take part in the meaning of the word as a whole, but are dependant on the meaning of the root? Answer with a single words or term.

elements of such compounds

What are arranged as in a phrase? Answer with a single words or term.

Compound words

What are made up by joining together two stems? Answer with a single words or term.

process of affixation

The ________ consists in coining a new word by adding an affix or several affixes to some root morpheme.

Verbs

________ made from nouns are the most numerous.

Morphemes

________ do not occur as free forms but only as constituents of words.

suffix

According to their position affixes are subdivided into ________ and prefixes, according to their function and meaning into derivatives and functional affixes and from etymological point of view- into native and borrowed. A(n) ________ is a derivational morpheme following the stem and forming a new derivative in a different part of speech or a different wordclass.

Affixes

What are subdivided into: 1) derivatives- words which consist of a root and one or more affixes; 2) compounds- words which consist of two or more stems (E.g? Answer with a single words or term.