word formation in english list

... 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...

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... 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 ... 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’). ... simply meaning something like ‘person or thing having to do with X’. The more specific interpretations of individual formations would then follow from an interaction of the meanings of base...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 15:20

... when combined with a vowel-initial final combining form, but that do take -o- when combined with a consonant-initial final combining form. And indeed, such data exist: the initial combining form ... building for growing plants’ ‘a house that is green’ c. óperating instructions operating instrúctions ‘instructions for operating something’ ‘instructions that are operating’ d. instálling ... the only initial combining form that never allows the linking element, while there are four final combining forms allowing vowels other than -o- preceding them. Chapter 6: Compounding 181 (13)...

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... lỗi lạc distinctive (adj) ( distinctive of something) đặc biệt; để phân biệt distinctively (adv) rõ ràng, minh bạch, rành mạch distinctly (adv) riêng biệt; rõ ràng, rành mạch, minh bạch, rõ ... uy nghi imprint (n) dấu vết, vết in, vết hằn; ảnh hưởng sâu sắc; phần ghi của nhà xuất bản;(v) đóng, in (dấu); in dấu vào, đóng dấu vào (cái gì); ghi khắc, ghi nhớ, in sâu vào, in hằn imprisonment ... refine (v) lọc, lọc trong, luyện tinh, tinh chế, làm cho tinh khiết; cải tiến; làm cho tinh tế hơn, làm cho lịch sự hơn, làm cho tao nhã hơn (sở thích, ngôn ngữ, tác phong ); trau chuốt refinement...

Ngày tải lên: 19/08/2013, 14:15

... of the words in the group. 35. ingénue. An ingénue is a young naïve girl, the opposite of the words in the group. 36. élan. Élan means spirit, enthusiasm, the opposite of the words in the list. 37. imbroglio. ... situa- tion or an embarrassing misunderstanding, the opposite of the words listed. 38. blasé. Blasé means apathetic due to over indul- gence in something, the opposite of the words listed. 39. vendetta. ... young, innocent, simple, and sometimes gullible. In English, we would have to use three or four words to express the same thing that the word naïve does. Some of these words are used frequently in...

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