Blends blends form if you take beginning plus the end- money plus energy=monergy Clipped compounds compounds formed by clipping. Conversion A type of derivation where no suffix is used to change the word class. Catch as a verb and catch as a noun, break-down as a verb and break-down as an adjective. Compounds Are formed by joining two or more root morphemes. Compounds are often idiomatic in meaning or at least not entirely transparent. Coffe plus pot equals coffeepot Solid, hyphenated, and open compounds An open compound means that the words of the compound are written separately (credit card), a hyphenated compound separates the words by hyphen(s) (brother-in-law), a solid compound is formed when the two words are written as one word (typewriter), solid compounds typically begin as two separate words, then become hyphenated words, and finally become solid compounds. Endocentric and exocentric compounds An endocentric compound consists of a head, i.e
Compound nouns are written as separate words (grapefruit juice), as words linked by a hyphen (sister-in-law), or as one word (schoolteacher). A compounded noun whose form no longer clearly reveals its origin (such as bonfire or marshall) is sometimes called an amalgamated compound. Many place names (or toponyms) are amalgamated compounds: e.g., Norwich (north + village) and Sussex (south + Saxons). Sunglasses, chalkboard, sleepwalk 30. Solid, hyphenated, and open compounds Solid compounds blackbird hyphenated compounds muddle-headed open compounds coffee cup …there is an additional preference in US English for the form to be one word and in British English for the form to be two words, e.g. buck tooth Br bucktooth US Eng 31. Endocentric and exocentric compounds Endocentric: is a compound or construction whose distribution is the same as the one of its constituents /// having the
Compounds are formed by joining two or more root morphemes or combining forms into a single lexeme. Compounding is a word-formation process in which two or more simple words are joined to a new word with a single meaning. Compound nouns – coffee pot, airmail, highway, coffee table, Compound adjectives – sky-blue, lead-free, machine-readable, sugarfree Compound verbs – dry-clean, carbon-copy, Compound prepositions – onto, into, unto 29. Solid, hyphenated, and open compounds 11 The common rule is to use as few hyphens has possible. The US English generally prefers the parts of the compound to be written together, whereas British English prefers them to be separate. Solid o Teapot, blackbird Hyphenated o Glass-making, muddle-headed, blue-haired Open
Writers use this pattern of word- 11 building quite often, creating nonce-words (created for one occasion), e.g nouns (She treated me with a pleasant-day-don't think), adjectives (a-you-don't-know-the-world-smile), a-move- away-or-I'll-kick-you-attitude. In general, nonce words are very expressive because they are fresh, striking new. This is true for words of an uncommon structure (see above hyphenated ones) and for words built according to traditional patterns, e.g to Hamletise (don't be too philosophical), Romeo and Julietishness of their affair, to eyebrow (move eyebrow to suggest to leave). Distorted words Are quite humorous, proper understanding of these words is based on the stable-fixed context, e.g I beg your pudding (instead of pardon). Unusual shortenings, e.g to give bacon and e. (eggs), He k.n (knocked) at the door.
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