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កកកកកកកវិ �ទ្យា�ស្ថា� នសហប្�តិ ប្តិ� ការអន�រជាតិ កម្ពុ��ជាCambodia International Cooperation InstituteFaculty of Arts, Humanities, and Languages
កកកកកកកវិ �ទ្យា�ស្ថា� នសហប្�តិ ប្តិ� ការអន�រជាតិ កម្ពុ��ជាCambodia International Cooperation InstituteFaculty of Arts, Humanities, and Languages
Applied Linguistics Topic: “Word & Word-Formation Processes”
Members of Groups 01:1)Miss. Ly Chenda2)Miss. Long Savna3)Mr. Sem Sopanha4)Mr. Kong Piseth5)Mr. Kann Saoda6)Mr. Um Sothea
Batch 06, Year 04, Semester 01Academic Year 2015 - 2016
Submitted to Lecturer: Kak Sovanna
Content
Etymology ( សិ�ក្សា�ពី�ប្រភពីនៃ�ពាក្សា�)
Coinage (ពាក្សា�ង្កើ���តថ្មី��)
Blending (ការផ្គុំ���ពាក្សា�ង្កើ���តជាពាក្សា�ថ្មី��)
Clipping (ការ�ប្រពី�ញពាក្សា�)
Backformation (ទប្រ!�"ពាក្សា�ង្កើ#�!)
Conversion (ម្លែ!%�ថ្នា' ក្សា"ពាក្សា�)
Derivation (ពាក្សា�ម្លែ�(!ង្កើ#�! ម្លែ�(!ចុ��)
Borrowing (ក្សា!*�)
Compounding (ការផ្គុំ���ពាក្សា�)
Acronyms (អក្សា,រកាត")
Prefixes (ម្លែ�(!ង្កើ#�!)
and suffixes (ម្លែ�(!ចុ��)
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Etymology
The study of the origin and history of a word is
known as its etymology, a term which, like
many of our technical words, comes to us
through Latin, but has its origins in Greek (e
´tymon “original form” + logia “study of”), and
is not to be confused with entomology, also
from Greek (e´ntomon “insect”).
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1. Coinage (neologism)
= a completely new word is made up from scratch to suit certain purposes. These are often invented by companies with new products or processes, or taken from names.
•Google•Kleenex •Nylon•Skype •Vaseline•Yahoo
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1. Coinage (2)
The most salient contemporary example of coinage
is the word google. Originally a misspelling for the
word googol (= the number 1 followed by 100
zeros), in the creation of the word Googleplex,
which later became the name of a company
(Google), the term google (without a capital letter)
has become a widely used expression meaning “to
use the internet to find information.”
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1. Coinage (3)
New products and concepts (ebay) and new
activities (“Have you tried ebaying it?”) are
the usual sources of coinage. New words based
on the name of a person or a place are called
eponyms. When we talked about a hoover (or
even a spangler), we were using an eponym.
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1. Coinage (4)
Other common eponyms are sandwich (from
the eighteenth-century Earl of Sandwich who
first insisted on having his bread and meat
together while gambling) and jeans (from the
Italian city of Genoa where the type of cloth
was first made).
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1. Coinage (5)
Some eponyms are technical terms, based on
the names of those who first discovered or
invented things, such as fahrenheit (from the
German, Gabriel Fahrenheit), volt (from the
Italian, Alessandro Volta) and watt (from the
Scottish inventor, James Watt).
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2. Borrowing (loan words)
Words are created by borrowing from another
language and incorporating into English.
Sometimes the original meaning is altered,
and the pronunciation may change. Since
some words were borrowed long ago, it may
be hard to recognize that they were ever not
part of English.
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2. Borrowing (2)
Examples Tortilla * nuance coup de grace *chaos kowtow alchemy espresso
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2. Borrowing (3)
As Bill Bryson observed in the quotation
presented earlier, one of the most common
sources of new words in English is the process
simply labeled borrowing, that is, the taking
over of words from other languages.
(Technically, it’s more than just borrow- ing
because English doesn’t give them back.)
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2. Borrowing (4)
Throughout its history, the English language
has adopted a vast number of words from
other languages, including croissant
(French), dope (Dutch), lilac (Persian), piano
(Italian), pretzel (German), sofa (Arabic),
tattoo (Tahitian), tycoon (Japanese), yogurt
(Turkish) and zebra (Bantu).
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2. Borrowing (5)
Other languages, of course, borrow terms
from English, as in the Japanese use of
suupaa or suupaamaaketto (“supermarket”)
and taipuraitaa (“typewriter”), Hungarians
talking about sport, klub and futbal, or the
French discussing problems of le stress, over
a glass of le whisky, during le weekend.
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2. Borrowing (6)
A special type of borrowing is described as
loan-translation or calque (/kælk/). In this
process, there is a direct translation of the
elements of a word into the borrowing
language. Interesting examples are the French
term gratte-ciel,.
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2. Borrowing (7)
which literally translates as “scrape-sky,” the
Dutch wolkenkrabber (“cloud scratcher”) or
the German Wolkenkratzer (“cloud scraper”),
all of which were calques for the English
skyscraper.
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2. Borrowing (8)
The English word superman is thought to be
a loan-translation of the German U ¨
bermensch, and the termloan-word itself is
believed to have come from the German
Lehnwort.
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2. Borrowing (9)
The English expression moment of truth is
believed to be a calque from the Spanish
phrase el momento de la verdad, though not
restricted to the original use as the final thrust
of the sword to end a bullfight.
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2. Borrowing (10)
Nowadays, some Spanish speakers eat perros calientes (literally “dogs hot”) or hot dogs.
The American concept of “boyfriend” was a borrowing, with sound modification, into Japanese as boyifurendo, but as a calque into Chinese as “male friend” or nan pengyu.
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3. Compounding
In some of the examples we have just
considered, there is a joining of two
separate words to produce a single form.
Thus, Lehn and Wort are combined to
produce Lehnwort in German.
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3. Compounding (2)
This combining process, technically known as
compounding, is very common in languages such
as German and English, but much less common in
languages such as French and Spanish. Common
English compounds are bookcase, doorknob,
fingerprint, sunburn, textbook, wallpaper,
wastebasket and waterbed.
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3. Compounding (3)
All these examples are nouns, but we can also
create compound adjectives (good-looking, low-
paid) and compounds of adjective (fast) plus
noun (food) as in a fast-food restaurant or a
full-time job.
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3. Compounding (4)
. This very productive source of new terms has
been well documented in English and German,
but can also be found in totally unrelated
languages, such as Hmong (spoken in South
East Asia),which combines hwj (“pot”)
andkais (“spout”) to produce hwjkais
(“kettle”).
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3. Compounding (5)
Recent creations are paj (“flower”) plus kws
(“corn”) for pajkws (“pop- corn”) and hnab
(“bag”) + rau (“put”) + ntawv (“paper” or
“book”) for hnabraun- tawv (“schoolbag”).
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4. Blending
The combination of two separate forms to
produce a single new term is also present in
the process called blending . However,
blending is typically accomplished by taking
only the beginning of one word and joining it to
the end of the other word.
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4. Blending (1)
Smurk (smoke + murk)
telecast (television/broadcast)
Brunch (breakfast/lunch),
motel (motor/hotel)
bit (binary/digit)
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4. Blending(2)
Infotainment (information/entertainment)
and simulcast (simulta- neous/broadcast) are
other new blends from life with television.
To describe the mixing of languages, some
people talk about Franglais (French/Anglais)
and Spanglish (Spanish/English).
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4. Blending (3)
In a few blends, we combine the beginnings
of both words, as in terms from information
technology, such as telex
(teleprinter/exchange) or modem
(modulator/demodulator).
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5. Clipping (4)
The element of reduction that is noticeable in
blending is even more apparent in the
process described as clipping. This occurs
when a word of more than one syllable
(facsimile) is reduced to a shorter form (fax),
usually beginning in casual speech.
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5. Clipping (5)
Other common examples are ad
(advertisement), bra (brassiere), cab
(cabriolet), condo (condominium), fan
(fanatic), flu (influenza), perm (permanent
wave), phone, plane and pub (public house).
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5. Clipping (6)
There must be something about
educational environments that encourages
clipping because so many words get
reduced, as in chem, exam, gym, lab,
math, phys-ed, poly- sci, prof and typo.
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6. Backformation
A very specialized type of reduction process is
known as backformation. Typically, a word of
one type (usually a noun) is reduced to form a
word of another type (usually adverb).
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6. Backformation (1)
donate (from “donation”), emote (from
“emotion”), enthuse (from “enthusiasm”), liaise
(from “liaison”) and babysit (from
“babysitter”). Indeed, when we use the verb
backform (Did you know
that“opt”wasbackformed from “option”?),
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6. Backformation (2)
The assumption seems to have been that if
there is a noun ending in -er (or something
close in sound), then we can create a verb for
what that noun -er does. Hence, an editor will
edit, a sculptor will sculpt and burglars,
peddlers and swindlers will burgle, peddle and
swindle.
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7. Conversion
Conversion is the word formation
process in which a word of one
grammatical form becomes a word of
another grammatical form without any
changes to spelling or pronunciation.
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7. Conversion (2)
For example, the noun email appeared
in English before the verb: a decade
ago I would have sent you an email
(noun) whereas now I can either send
you an email (noun) or simply email
(verb) you.
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7. Conversion (3)
Phrasal verbs (to print out, to take over) also
become nouns (a print out , a takeover). One
complex verb combination (want to be) has
become a new noun, as in He isn’t in the group,
he’s just a wanna be. Verbs (see through,
stand up) also become adjectives, as in see-
through material or a stand-up comedian.
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7. Conversion (4)
Or adjectives, as in a dirty floor, an
empty room, some crazy ideas and
those nasty people, can become the
verbs to dirty and to empty, or the
nouns a crazy and the nasty.
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8. Acronym
Acronyms are new words formed from the initial letters of a set of other words. These can be forms such as CD (“compact disk”) or VCR (“video cassette recorder”) More typically, acronyms are pronounced as new single words, as in NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)or UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization).
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9. Acronym(1)
ATM (“automatic teller machine”)
PIN (“personal identification number”)
(WAR) (“women against rape” )
(MADD) (“mothers against drunk driving”)
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10. Derivation
In our list so far, we have not dealt with what is by far the most common word- formation process to be found in the production of new English words. This process is called derivation and it is accomplished by means of a large number of small “bits” of the English language which are not usually given separate listings in dictionaries.
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10. Derivation (2)
These small “bits” are generally described
as affixes. Some familiar examples are the
elements un-, mis-, pre-, -ful, -less, -ish, -
ism and -ness which appear in words like
unhappy, misrepresent, prejudge, joyful,
careless, boyish, terrorism and sadness.
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A) Suffixation
- is characteristic of noun and adjective formation- a suffix usually changes not only the lexical meaning of a word but also its grammatical meaning or its word class, e.g. to bake – baker, beauty - beautiful
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Noun-forming suffixes:
-or : actor, visitor, director-er/eer : speaker, engineer, opener-ist : scientist, satirist, journalist-ess : hostess, stewardess, actress-ty/ity : cruelty, purity, stupidity-ure/ture : failure, exposure, mixture-dom : freedom, kingdom, -age : passage, marriage, postage-ance/ence : appearance, preference-hood : likelihood, brotherhood,
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Noun-forming suffixes (1)
Ing : reading, opening, beginning-ion/sion/tion/ition/ation: operation,
permission-ness : kindness, goodness, wilingness-y/ery : difficulty, enquiry, robbery, slavery-ship : partnership, membership,
kinship-ment : government, development, movement-t : complaint, restraint
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Adjective-forming suffixes
-able/ible : comfortable, fashionable, sensible
-ic/atic : atomic, heroic, systematic-ful : beautiful, helpful, careful-y : bloody, dirty, sunny-less : useless, homeless, careless-al/ial/tial: personal, influential, preferential-ive/ative/itive: active, creative, sensitive-ant/ent : pleasant, different, excellent
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Adjective-forming suffixes (1)
en: wooden, golden, woollen-like: childlike, ladylike-ing: amusing, interesting, charming-ous: dangerous, famous, mysterious-ish: bookish, childish, foolish-ly: friendly, lovely, manly
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Verb-forming suffixes
-ize/ise: civilize, modernize-ify/fy/efy: simplify, glorify-en, deepen, sharpen, lengthen
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Adverb-forming suffixes
-ly : formally, calmly, easily
-ward/wards : homeward, afterwards,
backwards
-wise/ways : clockwise, otherwise,
sideways
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B) Prefixation
a prefix usually changes or concretizes
the lexical meaning of a word and only
rarely parts of speech, e. g. write –
rewrite, smoker – non-smoker
Prefixes are sometimes used to form new
verb: circle – encircle, large – enlarge etc.
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Negation or opposition
• un- : unable, unfair, unpack, unzip• dis- : disagreeable, dislike• a- : amoral, atypical• in- : informal, inexperience• im- : (before b, m, p) impossible, immoral• il- : (before l) illegal, illogical• ir- : (before r) irregular, irrational• non- : non-smoker, non-scientific• de- : decode, defrost, devalue
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Repetition, making it possible
re-: reread, rebuild, reunited, redo
en-/em-: enrich, enlarge, embitter
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Degree, measure or size:
super- : supersonic, superhuman
semi- : semi-final, semidetached
hyper- : hyperactive, hypersensitive
ultra- : ultrahigh, ultraviolet
over- : overtime, overpopulated
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Time and place, order, relation
post- : post-war, postpone, postgraduate
inter- : international, intercontinental
pre- : pre-war, prehistoric, prearrange
ex- : ex-president, ex-husband, ex-
film- star
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References
Yule, G. 1883. The Study of Language. 4th ed. Cambridge: Universities of Edinburgh, Hawai’i, Louisiana State & Minnesota.
Applied Linguistics: Year 04, Semester 01. page 39-46
Mujaddidi, A. Applied Linguistics, Chapter 5Words and Word-formation Processes.
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