Презентация на тему Minor types of word-formation

words & the process of creating new words from

by cutting off a part of the word.

Types of

Initial or aphesis
Ex. phone-telephone

Medial or syncope
Ex. fancy-fantasy

Final or apocope
Ex. advert - advertisement

Both initial and final
Ex. flu - influenza

by combining parts of two words.

Types of blending
Additive type

2) Restrictive type that can be transformed into a phrase, the first element of which serves as a modifier for the second
Ex. telecast – television broadcast

word from the initial letters of a word combination.
Types

Acronyms which are read as ordinary English words
Ex. UNESCO – the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Acronyms with the alphabetic reading
Ex. BBC – the British Broadcasting Corporation

to an alteration in the phonemic composition of its

Types of sound-interchange

Vowel-interchange (ablaut)
Ex. food- to feed

Consonant-interchange
Ex. advice- to advise

or a thing by a more or less exact

Types of sound-imitation

Words denoting sounds produced by human beings in the process of communication or expressing their feeling.
Ex. chatter, babble

Words denoting sounds produced by animals, birds, insects.
Ex. moo, croak, buzz

Words imitating the sound of water, the noise of metallic things, a forceful motion.
Ex. splash, whip, swing

by subtracting a real or opposed suffix from the