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Cambridge University Press Word Formation In English
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05/10/2012, 08:22
... meaning through which speakers signal their
belonging to a certain group. In sum, truncations can be assigned a meaning, but the
nature of the morph expressing that meaning is problematic.
In ... is that in some expressions there is more
than one form signifying a certain meaning. A standard example from inflectional
morphology is the progressive form in English, which is expressed ... particular language,
English. As a textbook for an undergraduate readership it presupposes very little or
no prior knowledge of linguistics and introduces and explains linguistic
terminology and...
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EXERCISES (SOME COMMON PATERNS IN ENGLISH)
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09/07/2013, 01:26
... dance rather than sing.
A. Mary prefers to dance than to sing. B. Mary prefers dancing than sing.
C. Mary prefers dancing than to sing. D. Mary prefers dancing to singing.
12. It took him two ... Vietnamese two years ago. B. Mary began studying Vietnamese two years ago.
C. It is two years since Mary began studying Vietnamese. D. All are correct
14. I started going to school in 1997.
A. I haven’t ... heavy bag that he couldn’t carry it.
7. This song is simple enough for us to sing.
A. This song is so simple that we can sing. B. This song is so simple that we can sing it.
C. This song is so...
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Cambridge University Press Word Formation In English - Affixation
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25/10/2013, 15:20
... processes (begging, running, sleeping) or
results (building, wrapping, stuffing). The suffix is somewhat peculiar among
derivational suffixes in that it is primarily used as a verbal inflectional ... leakage,
spillage, and nouns denoting a collective entity or quantity, as in acreage, voltage,
yardage. Due to inherent ambiguities of certain coinages, the meaning can be
extended to include ... lounger, trainer, winner (in the sense
‘winning shot’). Furthermore, -er is used to create person nouns indicating place of
origin or residence (e .g. Londoner, New Yorker, Highlander, New Englander)....
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Cambridge University Press Word Formation In English - Compounding
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...
b. gréenhouse a green hóuse
‘a glass building for growing plants’ ‘a house that is green’
c. óperating instructions operating instrúctions
‘instructions for operating something’ ‘instructions ... operating something’ ‘instructions that are operating’
d. instálling options installing óptions
‘options for installing something’ ‘the installing of options’
While the compound stress rule ... be initial combining forms ending in a consonant that do not take -o- when
combined with a vowel-initial final combining form, but that do take -o- when
combined with a consonant-initial final...
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Cambridge University Press Word Formation In English
Ngày tải lên :
25/10/2013, 15:20
... meaning through which speakers signal their
belonging to a certain group. In sum, truncations can be assigned a meaning, but the
nature of the morph expressing that meaning is problematic.
In ... derivatives.
Word-formation in English
by
Ingo Plag
Universität Siegen
in press
Cambridge University Press
Series ‘Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics’
Draft version ... is that in some expressions there is more
than one form signifying a certain meaning. A standard example from inflectional
morphology is the progressive form in English, which is expressed...
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