Lexicology & Phraseology

  Word-building              Word-building is one of the main ways of enriching vocabulary. Like any other science of language word-building can be studied either synchronically or diachronically. Synchronically word-building concerns itself for the study of the present-day system of formative types. The diachronic approach to word-building deals with the development of formative types, with their history. Nowadays most linguistic research in word-building is synchronic. But in the field of word-building, we cannot totally get rid of the diachronic approach. Seeing the inevitability of applying diachronic methods along with synchronic ones Hans Marchand, the author of the most extensive research into word-building in English, called his approach “synchronic-diachronic”.               There are four main ways of word building in Modern English: affixation,...

  Seminar № 3. Affixation                                                                                                         1.      General characteristic of word-building. Affixation as a way of forming affixed words. 2.      Functions of suffixes. Classification of suffixes according to the parts of speech they form.     3.      Classification of suffixes according to their meaning, polyse...