Morphology
for pages 70 through 72 reading/homework
verb |
noun |
adjective |
adverb |
| compound | compound, compounding | compound/compound, compounded/compounded | ---------- |
| head, headedness | head | ||
| incorporate | incorporation | incorporated | |
| inflect | inflection | inflectional |
| compounding | combining two or more words into one word |
| head of a compound | the morpheme that determines the lexical category of the compound |
| right-headedness | a property of English compounds that means that lexical category of the last morpheme on the right determines the lexical category of the compound (example: blackboard in a noun because board is a noun) |
| endocentric compound | a compound that is a category (subtype) of the head (for example: the compound teacup is a type of the head cup) |
| exocentric compound | a compound whose meaning does not come from the head (for example: redneck is not a kind of neck) ......... Note: "redneck" describes someone who lives in the countryside, is uneducated and may have strong, unreasonable opinions |
| incorporation | a type of compounding: combining nouns with a verb to make a compound verb (example: house + clean = the verb houseclean: He's housecleaning right now.) |
| internal change | inflection by changing a sound in the morpheme (example: run to ran) |
| suppletion | inflection by completely changing the morpheme (example: go to went) |
A couple of words from the exercises that you may not find in your dictionaries:
Practice 4.6