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EX 4

Name the word formation process in the following cases.

1.Graphical User Interface  GUI

2.professor  prof

3.Information + commercial  infomercial.

4.sandwich (named after John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich)

5.un+rely+-able  unreliable

6.wind+ shield  windshield

7.orientation  orientate

8. a process  to process

EX 5

Give at least five examples for each of the word formation processes you have
studied in lecture 2 (IF POSSIBLE, NOT THE EXAMPLES DISCUSSED IN
THE LECTURE).

Ex 1:

F B
Creating create -ing
Seaward sea -ward
Wastage wast -age
Poetic poet -ic
Modernize modern -ize
Unhealthy health un-, -y
Waiter wait -er
Reconsider consider Re-
Keys key -s
imcompletion complete im-, -ion

Ex 2:
 1. Shipper: [ship]v er]n
2. Disobey: [dis [obey]v]v
3. Resettled: [re[settle]v]v ed]v
4. Anticlimaxes: [anti[climax]n]n es]n
5. Unemployment: [un[employ]v]v ment]n
6. Simply: [simple]n y]adv]
7. Jumping: [jump]v ing]v
8. Digitizes: [digit]n ize]v es]v
9. Activity: [act]v ive]adj ity]n
10. Confrontational: [confront]v ation]n al]adj

Ex 3:

simple Inflectional affix Derivational

affix
Rider D
Colder I
Silver S
Lens I
Legs I
Reader D
Redder I
Radish S
Redness I
rotation D

Ex 4:

1.Graphical User Interface  GUI

 acronymy

2.professor  prof

 clipping

3.Information + commercial  infomercial.

 blending

4.sandwich (named after John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich)

 adoption of brand names as common word

5.un+rely+-able  unreliable

 derivational

6.wind+ shield  windshield

 compound

7.orientation  orientate

 back formal

8. a process  to process

 conversion

Ex 5:

1. Derivation: teacher, actor, learner, happen, reader

2. Compound: dryclean, camerashy, dryclean, busstop, headache
3. Conversion: access – to access, eye – to eye, knife – to knife, torch – to
torch, can – to can,
4. Stress shift:
- ‘conflict – con’flict,
- ‘convert – con’vert,
- ‘increase – in’crease,
- ‘permit – per’mit,
- ‘produce – pro’duce
5. Clipping:
- laboratory  lab,
- grandmother  grandma,
- demonstration  demo,
- information  info,
- introduction  intro
6. Acronymy:
- UN  United Nation,
- UNESCO  United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural
Organization,
- UK  United Kingdom,
- PIN  Personal Identification Number,
- AIDS  Acquited Immunodeficiency Syndrome
7. Blending:
- Smoke and murk  Smurk
- Smack and mash  Smash
- Motor and hotel  motel
- Teleprinter and exchange  telex
- Transfer and resister  transtor
8. Back fomation
- Processtion  process
- Action  act
- Revision  revise
- Obcessive  obcess
- Editor  edit
9. Onomatopoeia: thump, clip clop, snap snap, crick crack, pop pop,
10. Adoption of brand names as common word: google, apple, pepsi, hyundai,
coca-cola.
11. Borrowing: Ao Dai, Kim Chi, Tom Yum, Hanbok, Kimono,