COMD 2050 : Exam 2 Study Guide
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2: clipping, making new words by reducing a multisyllabic word into a shorter form, examples: gasoline=gas; influenza=flu; names like ed, tom, Initialism is different because it does not form a word: examples: atm, espn, lol, fbi, dvd, derivation, making new words by tacking affixes onto them, prefixes: beginning of a word (un-,mis-,a-, suffixes: end of a word (-ness,-ment,-ful) Infix: inserting an expletive into the middle of a word (absogoddamnlutely: **some words are formed by multiple processes** Bound morpheme: suffix (-y) changed from noun to adj. making it derivational. Bound morpheme: suffix (-en) changed adj. to verb making it derivational. Then bound morpheme: suffix (-er) changed verb to noun, making it derivational. Then bound morpheme: suffix (-s) pluralized the noun, making it inflectional. It : phrases, noun phrases (np, there can be more than one in a sentence, can be, pronoun- she , proper names- betty white , article + noun- the dog , article + adj.
