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N(a)+n+ed: lion-hearted,dog-eared,shortsighted
Num+n+ed: one-eyed, four-legged;
N+a: airsick, duty-free…
3. Verb compounds:
A. Definition: The way the verb compounds
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2. Adjective compounds:
N+v+ing: air-conditioning, brain-storm V+ing +n: marketing plan, walking sti Adv+ v: outbreak, downfall V+adv: sit-in, handout, layout 2. Adjective compounds: N+v-ing: record-breaking ,time-
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教研室：外语系专业英语教研室
教师姓名：佘恋恋
课程名称: 英语词汇学
讲授内容及时间分配: 2 hours
授课专业及班次12 级语言1班 翻译5班
授课内容Word the formation 授课方式及学时Lecture：2 h目的要求 1)
What’s Compounding ? What is Conversion?
There are different (three major ) ways to compound English words:
1. Noun compounds:
N+n: chair-person, toilet paper; polar bear
prep+n: byproduct, afternoon, overcoat
2.现代英语词汇学.陆国强.上海外语教学出版社 1998.
3.现代汉语词汇研究.曹炜. 北京大学出版社 2004.
4.英语词汇学. 汪榕培. 上海外语教学出版社 2008
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Basic Formation of Words and Others
I. Compounding (Composition) （复合词）(P2428)
consuming; A+v+ing: easy-going, high-pitching Adv+v+ing: out-going, forth-coming;
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3. Verb compounds:
N+v+ed: mass-produced, poverty-stricken
more than one stem and functioning both grammatically and semantically as a single word”
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A. Words in network
Compounding can take place within any of the word classes, such as prepositions and conjunctions: without , throughout, moreover; and pronouns: oneself, somebody
3) What is Back-formation? What are other ways?
重点与难点: How many kinds of Compounding?
What're the differences between clipping and aconymy?
参考资料:
1.英语词汇学. 张维友.外语教百度文库与研究出版社 1996.
B. Features of compounds:
A compound tends to play a single grammatical role in a sentence, such as handouts,new-borns, three-year-olds. but brothers–in-law is an exception.
are formed mainly through conversion or
backformation; Such as lip-reading, mass-
production→to lip read, mass-produce.
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As is shown by the examples, back-formed verbs are formed by dropping the suffixes.
The formation of new words by joining two or more stems is called compounds.
According to Quirk (1985) : A compound is “ a Lexical unit consisting of
There are still some compounds which contain more than two stems. Such as forget-me-not.
B. Features of compounds:
The word stress usually occurs on the first element whereas in noun phrases the second element is generally stress Every compound should express a single idea just as one word and sometimes the meaning of such examples cannot be easily inferred fro the two comEpngolishnleexicnolotgsy (IIIo) f the compoun6 ds