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    Affixes

    Add suitable affixes to the word in bracket in each sentence below. 1. To invent, said Thomas Edison, you need two things: “A good imagination (imagine) and a pile of junk.” 2. Illegal (legal) immigration is the migration of foreign citizens into a country in circumstances where such people do not meet the legal requirements for entering the country. 3. You need to know how to differentiate (differ) between what is good and bad. You are an adult. 4. In 1991, legal protection

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    Affix

    Faculty / School of Veterinary Medicine English for VetMed, AWP and BioTech November 22, 2011 1 AFFIXATION or DERIVATION Definition Derivation is a process of word formation, in which one or more affixes is attached to a root to produce a new word known as derived word. This process of word-formation is also termed affixation for, whenever we produce a new word this way, we need to use an affix: a prefix or a suffix. Usually derivation will change the part of speech of the root to which

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    Gggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg

    - yuki (neige) / yũki (courage) C) Morphologie -Forme agglutinante : EX : un mot 日本 | 人 | 達 | Radical | Affixe | Affixe | Japon | Personne | Pluriel | Nihon | jin | tachi | Les Japonais ou le peuple japonais | EX : une phrase 会い | た | くな | かった | radical | affixe | affixe | affixe | ai- | -ta- | -kuna- | -katta | répondre  | désidératif  | négatif  | parfait | je ne voulais

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    Potential Problems & Causes in English Morphology and the Way to Overcome Them

    to form the words. English, for instance, has many different ways to forming words (e.g. singular to plural, present to past, verb to noun, noun to adjective, and so on) from Indonesian language. In English, the way to form words is by adding the affixes that can be categorized into suffix and prefix into the words. Derivational and Inflectional Affixation Generally, morphology has two rules of forming the words in English. The first rule is inflection. is the study that deals with syntactically

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    Arnold Lexicology

    И. В. АРНОЛЬД Лексикология современного английского языка Издание третье, переработанное и дополненное Допущено Министерством высшего и среднего специального образования СССР в качестве учебника для студентов институтов и факультетов иностранных языков Сканирование, распознавание, проверка: Аркадий Куракин (ark # mksat. net), сен-2004. Орфография унифицирована к британской. Пропущены страницы: 50-53, 134-139, 152-161, 164-171, 201-202, 240-243 Москва «Высшая школа» 1986 Мультиязыковой

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    Ling

    blocks: * Morpheme: smallest meaningful unit * Phoneme: The smallest contrastive unit of the language Ex: /t/ and /d/ – tot [tʰɑt] dot [dɑt] • Roots: part of the word that carries the core meaning • Affixes: Attach to the root/stem. Derivational or inflectional. • Derivational: affixes that changes meaning of a word (syntactical category) Ex: drink->drinkable Infect->disinfect • Inflectional: Does not change meaning (morphological category) Ex: Love->loves • Suffix:

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    Lexicology

    |1. Lexicology as a branch of |3. Etymological survey of the |4. Types of word meaning. Word |5. Change of meaning in English. |№ 6 Polysemy in English. |№ 7 Homonymy in English. Polysemy vs| |linguistics. Lexical units. |English lexicon. |meaning and motivation. |Word-meaning is liable to change in |1. The semantic structure of the |homonymy | |Lexicology (from Gr lexis ‘word’ and|The term “etymology”

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    Etymological Analysis of Modern English Vocabulary

    1 ETYMOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF MODERN ENGLISH VOCABULARY The modern English vocabulary falls into two main sets: native words and borrowings. Native words belong to the original English word-stock and are known from the earliest Old English manuscripts. It is customary to subdivide native words into those of the Indo-European stock and those of the common Germanic origin. The former have cognates in the vocabularies of all or most Indo-European languages, whereas the latter have cognates only in Germanic

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    Words

    have lived in this little village for about ten or so years. These extra words will tend to be added in the word boundaries of the original sentence. However, some languages have infixes, which are put inside a word. Similarly, some have separable affixes; in the German sentence "Ich komme gut zu Hause an", the verb ankommen is separated. Phonetic boundaries: Some languages have particular rules of pronunciation that make it easy to spot where a word boundary should be. For example, in a language

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    Tangible History: a Short Study in Mayan Languages and Writing

    Tangible History: A Short Study in Mayan Languages and Writing The distinctive characteristics that set men apart from animals have always baffled the minds of scientists and philosophers alike. Amongst these characteristics, language in and of itself remains one of the key ingredients to the puzzle. As a species, we humans have the ability to not just form distinctive sounds (like most animals can), but words—not just one set, but many; thousands of languages have existed over the centuries

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