Dictionary of Morphology team 3

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Borrowing noun [ˈbɒrəәʊɪŋ]: Forms that can be pronounced in some sense with the same meaning of the origin language that the word was taken. The word does not suffer any change; e.g. wagon-vagón, doctor-doctor.

Acronyms noun [ˈæk.rəә.nɪms]: Words derived from the initials of several words.

They are usually pronounced as the spelling indicates; e.g. NATO (for North Atlantic Treaty Organization).

C Affixation noun [afɪkˈseɪʃ(əә)n]: An affix is a bound morpheme that occurs before or after or within a base, commonly known as: prefixes, suffixes and infixes.

B Blending noun [blɛndɪŋ]: It is the fusion of two words into one, usually the first part of the word with the part of another. The resultant blend partakes of both original meanings; e.g.

Brunch, which blends the words breakfast and lunch.

Clipping noun [ˈklɪpɪŋ]: it means cutting off the beginning or the end of a word, or both, leaving a part to stand for a whole. e.g.: Lab from the word laboratory.

Coinage noun [ˈkɔɪnɪdʒ]: It is a word formation process in which a new word is created either deliberately or accidentally without using the other word formation processes. EFL mainly consist of teaching patterns of social use and how to use them to express meaning; e.g. Aspirin, Xerox, Nylon.

Compound word noun [ˈkɒm.paʊnd] - [wɜːd]: It is a unit consisting of two or more bases.

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stems that has not subsequently been subjected to derivational process; e.g. wildfire, armchair, boyfriend.

Conversion noun [kəәnˈvɜː.ʃəәn] [-ʒəәn]: It is the derivational process whereby an item changes its word-class without the addition of an affix without any reduction; e.g. a guess, to guess; the noun is changed into a verb.

D Derivation noun [ˌder.ɪˈveɪ.ʃəәn]: It is a process in which a new word is created from a base through the addition of an affix. We build new words from pre-existing pieces, e.g. happiness, which is formed by adding -ness to the word happy; we can also create the word unhappiness, adding the prefix un-

I Inflection noun [ɪnˈflek.ʃəәn]: It is a morphological process that modifies a word's form in order to mark the grammatical subclass. This includes some of the most common types that one is likely to find: the subject - verb agreement for third person in present simple and the use of plurals; e.g.

The books, she reads a book.

M Morpheme noun [ˈmɔː.fiːm]: It is the smallest linguistic piece with a grammatical function. It may consist of a word, such as hand, or a meaningful piece of a word, such as the -ed of looked, that cannot be divided into smaller meaningful parts, e.g. The word “unladylike” consists of three morphenes: un (not) - lady (well behaved female adult human) - like (having the characteristics of). The word “dogs” consists of two morphenes: dog (animal) - s (a plural markers on nouns).

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R Morphology noun [mɔːˈfɒl.əә.dʒi]: Its etymology is Greek: morph- means ‘shape, form’, and morphology is the study of form or forms. It refers to the mental system involved in word formation or to the branch of linguistics that deals with words, their internal structure, and how they are formed; e.g. considering the following sentence: The man looked at the horses. The plural ending -s in horses is dependent on the noun horse to receive meaning and can therefore not be a word. Horses, however, is a word, as it can occur in other positions in the sentence or stand on its own; e.g. The horses looked at the man. What is the man looking at? Horses.

Root noun [ruːt]: It is like a stem in constituting the core of the word to which other pieces attach, but the term refers only to morphologically simple units; e.g. agree is the root of the word disagreement.

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Suffix noun [ˈsʌf.ɪks]: morphemes that go after the stem, e.g. -al, -ful, -less, -ous.

Prefix noun [ˈpriː.fɪks]: Morphemes that go before the stem, e.g. anti-, mis-, over-, post-

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REFERENCES:

Aronoff, M. & Fudeman, K. (2011). What is Morphology?. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

Hamdallah, R. (1992). English Word Formation and its Pedagogical Implications for EFL. An-Najah J. Res 2(6) 57-64.

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