...
namely (naming something you
have just referred to
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6.2 Prefixes
A common way of making new words inEnglish is by adding standard combinations of
letters to existing words, ... abbreviations and their English equivalents.
abbreviation Latin words in full meaning
AD
anno Domini
since the birth of Christ
a.m.
ante meridiem
in the morning
BC
before Christ
... best word order to convey my points clearly to the
reader?
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Grammar
Six excellent career fields within mechanical engineering technology are heating, ventilating, and air
conditioning (HVAC);...
... fresh rain in a forest in the fall. Certainly a unified concept, but
we would not consider the smell of fresh rain in a forest in the fall a word. In fact, English
simply has no single word for ... attaches to words ending in the phonetic string [fär] and not to
words ending in the bound root -fer. How can we test which analysis is correct? We
would need to find words that end in the phonetic ... whether
kicks in (13a), drinking in (13b), or students in (13c) should be regarded as ‘new words’
in the sense of our definition.
(13) a. She kicks the ball.
b. The baby is not drinking her milk...
... exactly we are dealing with in the study of word-
formation.
2. Studying word- formation
As the term word- formation suggests, we are dealing with the formation of words,
but what does ... other words in (5). If we assume that in- is a prefix meaning in, into’ we
would predict that infer would mean ‘carry into’, which is not even close to the real
meaning of infer. The meaning ... one word (i.e. some kind of compound), the plural
ending is inserted inside the word and not at the end. Apart from certain
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aware unaware
c. (to) sing...
... other words in (5). If we assume that in- is a prefix meaning in, into’ we
would predict that infer would mean ‘carry into’, which is not even close to the real
meaning of infer. The meaning ... attaches to words ending in the phonetic string [fär] and not to
words ending in the bound root -fer. How can we test which analysis is correct? We
would need to find words that end in the phonetic ... meaning of
interview and the meaning of the ingredient morphemes inter- and view, you can
observe that the meaning of interview is not the sum of the meaning of its parts. The
meaning of inter-...
... certain sets of affixes can also be
illustrated by another interesting phenomenon. Both in compounding and in certain
cases of affixation it is possible to coordinate two words by leaving out ... derived word tells
us something about the speaker’s attitude (see Aronoff 1976:69), which is an
additional, new meaning.
Treating expletive infixation as regular word- formation is also in line ... actions we find
instrument nouns such as blender, mixer, steamer, toaster, nouns denoting entities
associated with an activity such as diner, lounger, trainer, winner (in the sense
‘winning shot’)....