English Word-formation Research Articles

Конверсия в системе словообразования английского языка

Конверсия в системе словообразования английского языка

Productive ways of formation of chemical and biological terms (in English, Russian and Tatar languages)

Terminology is one of the most important problems of modern linguistics. The study of terminological systems of typologically different languages is of great scientific interest. The article deals with the productive methods of word formation in English, Russian and Tatar chemical and biological terminology on the example of suffixation, compounding, conversion and abbreviation. The purpose of the present study is to identify the features of these methods in the chemical and biological term systems of genetically unrelated and typologically diverse languages. The general models of word formation typical for the languages studied in this article are considered and presented.

AN ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH WORD FORMATION PROCESSES IN BEATS APART NOVEL BY ALANDA KARIZA AND KEVIN ADITYA

This research discusses word formation process used in Beats Aparts novel By Alanda Kariza And Kevin Aditya. The aims to describe how are English word created and found out types of word formation processes. To analyze the data found the researchers applied English word formation in English morphology.This is qualitative descriptive research. The data were taken from Beats A parts novel By Alanda Kariza And Kevin Aditya. The main theory which was used in this research is taken from the book under the title The Study of Language , Third Edition byYule (2006). The result of this research showed that the process of borrowing from other language, there were Spain, China, French, Italy and Germany. The process of compounding, found out some category, there wereAdv + N, Adv + Adv, Adv + Adj, Adv + V, Adj + N, Adj + Adv, Adj + V, V + N, V + Adj, N + N, N + Adv, N + Adj, N + V. The process of clipping found out two category, there are foreclipped and backclipped. The process of conversion only found word from noun became adverb. The process of derivation consist from adding prefix such us un-, re-, dis-, im-. Adding suffix such us –ly, -ish, -er, -ness, -ion / tion, -able, -ful, -ship, -ment, -ate, -r, -en, -ity, -tic, -ism, -al, -ar. Adding infix such us –s-, -ly-, -bor-. The process of multiple processes is all words including multiple processes in this research have a word that covers the processes of back formation and derivation. This research found out types of English word formation processes such as borrowing, compounding, blending, clipping, back formation, conversion, acronyms,derivation and multiple processes. The researcher hopes that this research can improve the knowledge about morphology, especially in word formation. Key words: Morphology, Word formation, Novel

AN ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH WORD FORMATION PROCESSES IN BEATS APART NOVEL BY ALANDA KARIZA AND KEVIN ADITYA

This research discusses word formation process used in Beats Aparts novel By Alanda Kariza And Kevin Aditya. The aims to describe how are English word created and found out types of word formation processes. To analyze the data found the researchers applied English word formation in English morphology.This is qualitative descriptive research. The data were taken from Beats A parts novel By Alanda Kariza And Kevin Aditya. The main theory which was used in this research is taken from the book under the titleThe Study of Language,Third Edition byYule (2006). The result of this research showed that the process of borrowing from other language, there were Spain, China, French, Italy and Germany. The process of compounding, found out some category, there wereAdv + N, Adv + Adv, Adv + Adj, Adv + V, Adj + N, Adj + Adv, Adj + V, V + N, V + Adj, N + N, N + Adv, N + Adj, N + V. The process of clipping found out two category, there are foreclipped and backclipped. The process of conversion only found word from noun became adverb. The process of derivation consist from adding prefix such us un-, re-, dis-, im-. Adding suffix such us –ly, -ish, -er, -ness, -ion / tion, -able, -ful, -ship, -ment, -ate, -r, -en, -ity, -tic, -ism, -al, -ar. Adding infix such us –s-, -ly-, -bor-. The process of multiple processes is all words including multiple processes in this research have a word that covers the processes of back formation and derivation. This research found out types of English word formation processes such as borrowing, compounding, blending, clipping, back formation, conversion, acronyms,derivation and multiple processes. The researcher hopes that this research can improve the knowledge about morphology, especially in word formation. Key words: Morphology, Word formation, Novel

A Linguistic Analysis of the Language of Sex Workers in Port Harcourt, Nigeria

This paper attempted a linguistic analysis of the language of interaction and negotiation among commercial sex workers in Port Harcourt City, Nigeria. It aimed at understanding the language of sex workers by first seeking to understand their lifestyle. To achieve balance, the paper anchored on Yule’s English Word Formation Theory, Jacobson’s Functions of Language Theory and Aristotle’s Rhetorical Theory, as well as rested on the basic foundation of language-gender relations and feminist ideologies. The paper adopted the qualitative research method of data-gathering and investigated/interpreted the foregrounded features in the language of the sex workers and their clients, using the word formation process, functions of language, and the rhetorical analysis. The study finds that the language of commercial sex workers in Port Harcourt City, Nigeria, is largely pedestrian, pidginized and highly infused with slang, jargons and symbolic terms that are highly connotative but mutually intelligible among the sex workers and between them and their clients. DOI : 10.7176/RHSS/9-12-18 Publication date :June 30 th 2019

Teaching Academic English Corpus Trough Word-formation

Classical elements permeate global academic discourse and scientific terminology. Understanding the meanings and functioning of these elements can help multilingual scholars cope with disciplinary literature and write for publication and is therefore essential in teaching English for academic and specific purposes. However, few manuals on academic vocabulary explore word-formation in-depth or use it as a tool to alleviate learning through analysis and synthesis rather than memorizing words. Russian, as many other European languages, is a synthetic language in which affixation is as productive as in Latin. The paper presents a well-designed and approbated course of academic vocabulary for social scientists, analyses relationships between linguistic studies and teaching academic vocabulary, and discusses the ways of increasing the effectiveness and clarity of teaching by more systematic study of classical elements, enhancing students’ analytical skills through innovative methodology and using the advantages of similarities between Russian and Latin word-formation. Comparative analysis demonstrates that the key features of the course, such as interactive computer-based visual materials and various analytical tasks involving students’ background knowledge and academic awareness, help students not only decipher unknown words, but also produce neologisms, which is essential in coping with new terminology. Published as a book, Academic Vocabulary for Social Sciences is now available for teachers, students and researchers as a resource for study and self-study. The effectiveness of the approach demonstrates that it can be used as a model to design similar specific vocabulary courses for students of other synthetic languages.

Resenha do livro "Word Formation and Transparency in Medical English"

TEN HACKEN, Pius PANOCOVÁ, Renáta (orgs.). Word Formation and Transparency in Medical English. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 20151.

An Alternative Account of Truncation in English Word Formation

An Alternative Account of Truncation in English Word Formation

A Closer Look at Philippine English Word-Formation Frameworks

A Closer Look at Philippine English Word-Formation Frameworks

The Transition from Comprehensive to Analytical Characteristics of English Language

English belongs to the Indo-European language family. It is a language that achieves meaning expression through its own form of inflection, focusing on form, and it is one kind of comprehensive language. Analytical language expresses grammatical meaning through function words, word order, and so on. With the development of language, English has a tendency to develop from comprehensive language to analytical language. In this study, it explains the transitional characteristics of English language from comprehensive characteristics to analytical characteristics from following aspects: reduces or even disappears of English morphological change; the ability of English vocabulary meaning expansion; the multi-use of function words; the powerful grammatical function of the article; the fusion of English and Chinese language; the Chinese loanword in English; the Syntactical phenomenon of English and Chinese language, the complexity of English word formation, the theme-highlight sentence pattern.

The Word Class Adjective in English Business Magazines Online

Abstract The aim of this paper is to research the word class adjective in one sequence of the ESP: Business English, more precisely English business magazines online. It is an empirical study on the corpus taken from a variety of business magazines online. The empirical analysis allows a comprehensive insight into the word class adjective in this variety of Business English and makes its contribution to English syntax, semantics and word formation. The syntactic part analyses the adjective position in the sentence. The semantic part of the study identifies the most common adjectives that appear in English business magazines online. Most of the analysis is devoted to the word formation of the adjectives found in the corpus. The corpus is analysed in such a way that it enables its division into compounds, derivatives and conversions. The results obtained in this way will give a comprehensive picture of the word class adjective in this type of Business English and can act as a starting point for further research of the word class adjective.

МЕТАФОРИЧНО-АСОЦІАТИВНІ ПАРАЛЕЛІ У ФОРМУВАННІ СУБСТАНДАРТНОЇ ЛЕКСИКИ ТА ФРАЗЕОЛОГІЇ АНГЛІЙСЬКОЇ, УКРАЇНСЬКОЇ ТА РОСІЙСЬКОЇ МОВ

The article is devoted to the analysis of words and phraseological units in the Ukrainian, Russian and English substandard, which have similar or even identical metaphoric associated parallels in their semantic structure. The signifi cance of language substandard, in particular slang, from the communicative aspect is emphasized. On the other hand the importance of complete understanding and proper translation on all levels of intercultural communication is underlined. Classifi cation of such words and phrases according to the lexico-semantic groups is suggested. Numerous examples of parallel word and phrase formation in substandard English, Ukrainian and Russian languages are provided with the analysis and description of similar and identical metaphorical associations in them. Moreover, such examples are provided for nouns, adjectives, verbs and phraseological units. The causes of the existence of the phenomenon of parallel metaphoric associative parallels are described.

Neologisms

Abstract Studies in word-formation in English are common compared to the study of new words that are formed by combining the resources of two linguistic systems. Although new word formations within a language are considered to be highly creative, combining words from two different languages provides another level of creativity to bilinguals in different situations. The objective of this paper is to examine the main types of word creation processes employed in mass media texts, particularly in Hindi-English code-mixed words. The focus is on three main processes of word creation: affixation, blending and compounding (including reduplication) and they are discussed from the perspective of productivity/creativity, distribution and underlying motivations. These processes seem to be illustrative of the nativization of inner circle English in India, particularly in mass media where such lexical adaptations lend texts a distinct flavor through innovation in word-formation.

Infixing as a way of word formation in English and Russian

Infixing as a way of word formation in English and Russian

Compounding in Pashto: An Analysis of Compound and Compound- Complex Adjectives

Compounding as the word formation process is common across languages. Pashto language uses it as a productive morphological process. The paper aims at the structural description of compound and compound-complex adjectives in the language. For this purpose the data were collected through discourse centered method, Pashto newspapers and Pashto programmes on T.V and radio. The data is analyzed using Plag’s (2003) work on word formation in English as theoretical framework. The analysis proves that the grammatical categories exploited in order to derive non-simple adjectives are that of noun, verb and adjective. Further, it also reveals the fact that compound-complex adjectives are derived through synthetic compounding. It also denote the fact that in cases where compound-complex words are formed, the suffixed is invariably attached to the element on the right.

English Word-Formation Types in Croatian: The Case of Morphological Adaptation of Noun Phrases in Economic Terminology

The influx of Anglicisms is no longer limited to simple and open-class words in a lexicon, but it is also open to complex words and multiword expressions (e.g., phraseological units and simple sentences). Complex words are not only borrowed with their original English affixes (prefixes), but can also be formed with the addition of bound morphemes from the recipient language. This paper aims to shed more light on current Anglicisms in terms of noun phrase formation and adaptation from economic terminology into the Croatian language. It presents the results of transmorphemisation within a three-degree adaptational framework: zero, partial/compromise and complete transmorphemisation. Each adaptational degree is exemplified by English models and Croatian replicas, all described and explained in these terms. For the sake of comparison, illustration and the applicability of the model, some examples of noun phrases found in Russian, Slovene and Serbian are also provided.

Pedagogic Value of 'Derivational Morphology' for Vocabulary Enhancement

To speak and understand English requires control over a wide range of vocabulary. The basic nature of English vocabulary is cosmopolitan in the sense that it is a lexically mixed language. Its unique quality is its capacity to indefinitely borrow foreign words and assimilate them into its phonetic and orthographic structure. A brief glance at the English vocabulary in terms of its growth and change of meaning diachronically can demonstrate that teachers of English cannot take words for granted. In fact, an efficient, effective ESL teacher ought to be good at the morphology of English so that they can facilitate learners to enhance their word power. One of the learner needs is the strategies to improve their vocabulary. At the same time, teachers cannot deliver what they lack. They should first of all have a clear insight into how English words have been and are being formed through various processes. This paper aims at demonstrating some processes of word formation in English that can be clubbed together under the rubric ‘derivation’ as opposed to ‘inflection.’ Modern English is, after all, called a derivational language.

Word-Formation in English and German: A Contrastive Analysis

Word building processes are highly common both in English and in German, which in fact share a common history. The two languages make extensive use of various word building processes to enrich their vocabularies. However, despite the certain similarities between the two languages analyzed in this paper, their different paths of evolution, and implicitly the various lexical influences exerted upon them along time, have determined distinctive features when it comes to the process of word building. Therefore, this paper intends to present a contrastive analysis between the various means of word formation in English and German, supported by examples for each of the processes analyzed.

The Effect of Teaching Word Formation Theory to English Students

The word-formation theory is often avoided in English language course books and little research is conducted on the pedagogical status of word-building process. However, many researchers and lecturers have realized the effect of teaching word-formation theory in English languages course books. English language lecturers have noted that vocabulary is very important in various subjects of English language branch curricula. For this reason, we must admit that the processes of word-formation, through which every language vocabulary can be enriched, are very important in English language teaching and learning. Word formation components such as prefixes, suffixes, etymology, history of words and other required materials in composing the vocabulary of English language are tested in Aleksandër Moisiu University. The results have revealed a significant and successful effect of teaching Word formation theory, this way showing the colossal importance of this important language aspect in every English language edition course book. This paper has two aims: first to review types of English word-formation and, second, to discuss the absence and the need for word-formation theory in English language course books. Keywords: Word formation, prefixes, suffixes, words, vocabulary.

Of soundscapes, talkathons and shopaholics: On the status of a new type of formative in English (and beyond)

AbstractThis paper investigates a new type of formative in English that frequently gives rise to a productive word-formation process. Three questions that have been discussed controversially in previous research will be addressed: What is the origin of these formatives? What type of morpheme do they represent? What type of word-formation process are they involved in? The paper argues that the secretion, productive use and subsequent lexicalization of these formatives is a recent development in English word-formation that presents challenges to morphological theory and grammaticalization. In addition, data from other languages suggest that processes of language contact are related to the emergence of this new formative in languages other than English.