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Cambridge University Press Word Formation In English

... 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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Cambridge University Press Word Formation In English - Affixation

... 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 ... derived word tells us something about the speaker’s attitude (see Aronoff 1976:69), which is an additional, new meaning. Treating expletive infixation as regular word- formation is also in line ... 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’)....

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Cambridge University Press Word Formation In English - Compounding

... 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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