Leksikoloogia konspekt (uus)
skyrocket, trash talk, emcee
Verb to noun
o Catch, bounce, meet, swim
Adjective to verb
o Dirty,
Past participle to adjective
o Broke, drunk,
Phrasal verb to noun
o Breakdown, break-in, break-off, breakthrough, setback, setup,
Closed class words
o The ins and outs
o The whys and wherefores
Affixes
o Ologies, isms and ists
Whole phrases
o Holier-than-thou attitude
28. Compounds
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,