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1405770977_56738.doc word-formation in modern english (continued) 1. conversion, its definition. the word-building means in conversion. different view-points on conversion. typical semantic relations within a converted pair (verbs converted from nouns, nouns converted from verbs). 2. shortening. lexical abbreviations. acronyms. clipping. types of clipping: apocope, aphaeresis, syncope. 3. non-productive means of word formation. blending. back-formation. onomatopoeia. sentence - condensation. sound and stress interchange. working definitions of principal concepts conversion is a highly productive way of coining new words in modern english. conversion is sometimes referred to as an affixless way of word-building, a process of making a new word from some existing root word by changing the category of a part of speech without changing the morphemic shape of the original root-word. the transposition of word from one part of speech into another brings about changes of the paradigm. conversion is not only highly productive but also a particularly english way …

words involves the shortening of both words and word-groups. distinction should he made between shortening of a word in written speech (graphical abbreviation) and in the sphere of oral intercourse (lexical abbreviation). lexical abbreviations may be used both in written and in oral speech. lexical abbreviation is the process of forming a word out of the initial elements (letters, morphemes) of a word combination by a simultaneous operation of shortening and compounding. clipping consists in cutting off two or more syllables of a word. words that have been shortened at the end are called apocope (doc-doctor, mit-mitten, vet-veterinary). words that have been shortened at the beginning are called aphaeresis (phone-telephone). words in which some syllables or sounds have been omitted from the middle are called syncope (ma'm - madam, specs - spectacles). sometimes a combination of these types is observed (tec-detective, frig-refrigerator). blendings (blends, fusions or portmanteau words) may be …

mi - productive type of word-building. it is mostly active in compound verbs, and is combined with word-composition. the basis of this type of word-building are compound words and word-combinations having verbal nouns,gerunds, participles or other derivative nouns as their second component (rush-development, finger-printing, well-wisher). these compounds and word-combinations are wrongly considered to be formed from compound verbs which are nonexistent in reality. this gives a rise to such verbs as: to rush-develop, to finger-print, to well-wish. onomatopoeia (sound-imitation, echoism) is the naming of an action or thing by a more or less exact reproduction of a natural sound associated with it (babble, crow, twitter). semantically, according to the source of sound onomatopoeic words fall into a few very definite groups. many verbs denote sounds produced by human beings in the process of communication or in expressing their feelings (babble, chatter, giggle, grumble, murmur, mutter, titter, whisper). there are sounds …

3. мостовий m.i. лексикологія англійської мови. - x., 1993. 4. харитончик з.а. лексикология английского языка. - x., 1992. 5. arnold i.v. the english word. - m., 1986. 6. ginsburg r.s., khindekel s.s., knyazeva g.j., sankin a.a. a course in modern english lexicology. - m., 1979. 7. rayevska n.m. english lexicology.- k., 1979.

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1405770977_56738.doc word-formation in modern english (continued) 1. conversion, its definition. the word-building means in conversion. different view-points on conversion. typical semantic relations within a converted pair (verbs converted from nouns, nouns converted from verbs). 2. shortening. lexical abbreviations. acronyms. clipping. types of clipping: apocope, aphaeresis, syncope. 3. non-productive means of word formation. blending. back-formation. onomatopoeia. sentence - condensation. sound and stress interchange. working definitions of principal concepts conversion is a highly productive way of coining new words in modern english. conversion is sometimes referred to as an affixless way of word-building, a process of making a new word from some existing root word by changing the cat...

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