大学单词怎么背Week 13 Changing of English Vocabulary 1 (7).docx

Week4-6Word-formationinEnglish2

TheMainProcessesofEnglishWord-formation

Therearefourmaintypesofword-formationinEnglish:

Prefixation

Suffixation

Thesetwotypescanbereferredtoas“affixation.”

Conversion

Compounding

Prefixation:

Affixationincludesprefixationandsuffixation.Affixationisthemorphologicalprocesswherebygrammaticalorlexicalinformationisaddedtothebase.

AffixationhasplayedanactivepartinthecourseofthedevelopmentoftheEnglishlanguage.It’snotonlyanage-old,butalsoaproductivemethodinEnglishword-building.

Whatisprefixation?

Prefixationisamaintypeofword-formationputtingaprefixinfrontofthebase,sometimeswith,butmoreusuallywithoutachangeofwordclass,e.g.dislike(dis+like)

TherearetencategoriesofprefixesinEnglishaccordingtothemeaning.

negativeprefixes(Pleaselistatleasttwowordswiththefollowingaffixes.)

a-/an-(+adj.)

dis-(+adj./adv./n./v.)

in-/im-/ir-/il-(+adj./n.)

non-(+adj./n./adv.)

un-(+adj./n.)

reversative/privativeprefixes(Pleaselistatleasttwowordswiththefollowingaffixes.)

de-(+v./deverbaln.)

dis-(+v./adj.)

un-(+v./n.)

pejorativeprefixes(Pleaselistatleasttwowordswiththefollowingaffixes.)

Mal-,mis-,pseudo-

prefixesofdegreeorsize(Pleaselistatleasttwowordswiththefollowingaffixes.)

arch-,co-,super-,out-,sub-,over-,under-,hyper-,ultra-,mini-,sur-

prefixesoforientationattitude(Pleaselistatleasttwowordswiththefollowingaffixes.)

anti-,contra-,counter-,pro-

locativeprefixes(Pleaselistatleasttwowordswiththefollowingaffixes.)

fore-,inter-,intra-,sub-,super-,trans-

prefixesoftimeorder(Pleaselistatleasttwowordswiththefollowingaffixes.)

fore-,ex-,post-,pre-,re-,ante-

numberprefixes(Pleaselistatleasttwowordswiththefollowingaffixes.)

bi-,di-,multi-,poly-,semi-,demi-,hemi-,tri-,uni-,mono