Inglise leksikoloogia
Adverb forming suffixes(slow-ly, home-wards)
Affixes are dead they are no longer felt as part of words(nt, dea-d, sai-l) and living (easyly
recognized). Living affixes are non-productive (not used today but yet we may recognize them(nt,
some-handsome, hood-childhood) and productive that are used at present (nt, de, re pre, non, un).
Affixes are native and borrowed. Native ones are those that existed in OE period (ish, dom, ful, teen).
They used to be indipendent words. Foreign affixixes are viewed according to the lg they come from
(nt, Latin- able; deca-dent, expect-ancy)
Hybrids are for example read plus able. Some words have elements that belong to different languages,
they are hybrids. Diminutive suffixes express fondness or a small size (nt, daddy, booklet, pussykin).
Derigatory express neg attitude (nt, gangster) . Negative prefixes are un, non, mis dis
.
9. composition ehk compound.
The pattern of composition is a combination of 2 or more stems