PROCESSES OF WORD FORMATION

Word formation processes are basically how new words are created and become part of the language. There are some word formation processes: A. Compounding Compounding is simply the joining of two or more words into a single word. Example:  Cannot, Baseball, Fireworks, Grandmother, Elsewhere, Upside, Together, Sunflower, Crosswalk, Become,...

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WORDS

A. Definition of Words A word is smallest segment of speech that can be used alone. B.Simple and Complex Words 1. Simple words consist of a single free morpheme. Examples: Stand, Cake, Beauty 2. Complex words contain, as their immediate constituents, either two bound forms or a bound and a free morpheme. Examples of two bound forms as IC’s: a....

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HOMOPHONES

A. Homophones Homophones is the words that has similar sound but different in meaning. Examples: 1. Meet-Meat-Mid 2. See-Sea-She The same is true of bound forms. Compare: 1. Verbal inflectional suffix:        Feels /-z/ good 2. Noun plural inflectional suffix:    Frogs /-z/ 3. Noun possessive inflectional...

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ALLOMORPHS

An allomorph is any of the difference forms of a morpheme (Richards, Platt & Webber 1987: 9). It is a word that has different sound but does not change the meaning. There are four kinds of allomorphs: Note: a morpheme may have more than one phonemic form 1. Additive allomorph: a. Past tense: /d/, /t / and /∂d/ (pronunciation). Examples: ...

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