Word-formation of the English language. Conversion

Московский Педагогический Колледж 12 Курсовая работа Тема Способы словообразования английского языка. Конверсия Студентки III курса Отделения начальных классов с английским языком Постниковой А.С. Научный руководитель Лакомова Е.В. Москва 1999 г. Contents.I. Introduction II. Theoretical part 1 Affixal word formation 2 Conversion III. Practical part IV. Conclusion V. Bibliography VI. Appendix VI. Appendix II . Introduction.

The theme of my course-paper is Word-formation. Conversion. At the first part of the work Ive wrote some lines about the term word as the smallest independent unit of speech. Next, there is the definition of the field of word-formation. At the following part you can find some information about the affix word-formation of nouns, verbs and adjectives. The next part named conversion. Where the terms conversion and zero-derivation are examined which are the synonyms for some linguists.

It is necessary to mention here about productivity and conversion as syntactic process. Under the headline zero-derivation it is possible to read about derivation connection between verbs and nouns substantives, zero-derivation with loan-words. The next item is zero-derivation as specifically English process. In the practical part Ive analysed two courses Russian by Vereshchagina, Pritykina and foreign one Magic time. The term word. The term word should be defined.

It is taken to denote the smallest independent, indivisible unit of speech, susceptible of being used in isolation. A word may have a heavy stress, thought, some never take one. To preceding the infinitive never has a heavy stress, but it is a word as it can be separated from the verbal stem by an adverb as in to carefully study. A composite may have two heavy stresses so long as it is not analyzable as a syntactic group. There is a marked tendency in English to give prefixes full stress thought they do not exist as independent words.

Indivisible composites such as arch-enemy, crypto-communist, unlucky, therefore are morphological units whereas combination, like stone, wall, gold watch, are syntactic groups. As for the criterion of indivisibility, it is said that the article a is a word as IT can interpolate words between article and substantive a nice man, a very nice man, an exceptionally gifted man. But a as in aglitter cant be separated from the verb stem with which it forms a group and therefore is not a free morpheme word. With regard to the criterion of usability, it must not be assumed that all words can be used by themselves, in isolation.

It is in the very nature of determiners like the article the to be used in conjunction with the word they determiners. Definition of the field of word-formation. Word-formation is that branch of the science of language which studies the patterns on which a language forms new lexical units, i.e. words.

Word-formation can only treat of composites which are analyzable both formally and semantically. The study of the simple words, therefore, insofar as it is an, unmotivated sign, has no please in it. It is a lexical matter. A composite rests on a relationship between morphemes though which it is motivated. By this token, do-er, un-do, rain-bow are relevant to word-formation, but do, rain, bow are not. Conversion. Conversion is the change in form class of a form without any corresponding change of form. Thus the change whereby the form napalm, which has been used exclusively as a noun, came to be as a verb They decided to napalm the village is a case of conversion.

The exact status of conversion within word-formation is unclear. For some scholars Marchand 8 conversion is a brunch of derivation, for others Koziol Marchand 8 it is a separate type of word-formation, on a level with derivation and compounding. Whether this distinction has any real effect on the structure of a theory of word-formation is not clear.

Conversion is frequently called zero-derivation, a term which many scholars prefer Adams, Jespersen, Marchand 1,5,8 . Most writers who use both terms appear to use them as synonyms although Marchand 8 is an exception. However, as Lyons 7 points out, the theoretical implications of the two are rather different. Cruber 2 , for example, argues that to treat ordinary derivation and zero-derivation differently in the grammar is to lose a generalization, since both involve changes of form class, but claims that they can only by treated the same way, if a zero-affix is permitted.

Otherwise, he says, derivation can be treated as a rule-governed process, but zero-derivation cant be that is, the relation between some napalm and to napalm and other similar pairs must be, considered to be totally coincidental Lyons 7 own view as noted by Matthews is that in cases of so-called zero-derivation, an identity operation can be said to have been carried out between the base and the new lexeme.

This means that there is a process linking the two lexeme, napalm, lent that this process defines the form of the derived lexeme as being identical to the form of the base. This is also more or less the line taken by Matthews himself, when he speaks of a formation involving zero operation. The theoretical dubiousness of speaking of zero affixes in language leads Bauer to prefer the theoretical position enshrined in the term conversion, especially when this can be given a dynamic interpretation, and that term will be used exclusively from now on in this book. It should, however, be noted that this is an area of dispute in the literature.

For a comprehensive review of the literature on conversion and a discussion of the implication of talking in terms of zero-derivation, the reader is referred to Pannanen. Productivity. Conversion is an extremely productive way of producing new words in English.

There do not appear to be morphological restrictions on the forms can undergo conversion, so that compounds, derivatives, acronyms, blends, clipped forms and simplex words are all acceptable inputs to the conversion process. Similarly, all ford classes seem to be able to undergo conversion, and conversion seems to de able to produce words of almost any form class, particularly the open form classes noun, verb, adjective, adverb. This seems to suggest that rather than English having specific rules of conversion rules allowing the conversion of common nouns into verbs or adjectives into nouns, for example conversion is a totally free process and any lexeme can undergo conversion into any of the open form classes as the need arises.

Certainly, if there are constraints on conversion they have yet to de demonstrated. The only partial restriction that it is award of is that discussed by Marchand. Marchand 8 points out that derived nouns rarely undergo conversion, and particularly not to verb. This is usually because of blocking.

To take one of Marchands examples, a derived noun like arrival will not de converted into a verb if that verb means exactly the same as arrive, from which arrival is derived. In cases where blocking is not a relevant concern, even derived nouns can undergo conversion, as is shown by the series a sign to sign a signal to signal and to commit commission to commission. The commonness of conversion can possibly be seen as breaking down the distinction between form classes in English and leading to a system where there are closed sets such as pronouns and a single open set of lexical that can be used as required.

Such a move could be seem as part of the trend away from synthetic structure and towards analytic structure which has been fairly typical of the history of English over the last millennium. This suggestion is, of course highly speculative. Conversion as a syntactic process. Conversion is the use of a form which is regarded as being basically of one form class as though it were a member of a different form class, without any concomitant change of form. There are, however, a number of instances where changes of this type occur with such ease and so regularly that many scholars prefer to see that as matters of syntactic usage rather that as word-formation.

The most obvious cases are those where the change of form class is not a major one such as from noun to verb or adjective to noun but a change from one type of noun to another or one type of verb to another.

The clearest example of this type is the use of countable nouns as uncountable and vise versa. In some tea, tea is used as an uncountable noun, while in two teas it is used as a countable noun goat is normally a countable noun, but if a goat is being eaten it is quite in order to ask for a slice of goat, where goat is used as an uncountable noun. In general, given a suitable context, it is possible to use almost any noun on either way for example, when the Goons took part in a mountain-eating competition, it would have been perfectly possible to ask whether anyone wanted some more mountain, using mountain as an uncountable noun. Similarly, proper nouns can be easily used as common nouns as in Which John do you mean? or The Athens in Ohio is not as interesting as the Athens in Greece.

Intransitive verbs are frequently used as transitive verbs, as in He is running a horse in the Derby or The army flew the civilians to safety.

Finally, non-gradable adjectives are frequently used as gradable adjectives, as in She looks very French or New Zealander are said to be more English. Such processes are very near the inflectional end of word-formation. Another case where it is not completely clear whether or not conversion is involved is with conversion to adjectives. This depends crucially on how an adjective is defined. For some scholars it appears to be the case that the use of an element in attributive position is sufficient for that element to be classified as an adjective.

By this criterion bow window, head teacher, model airplane and stone well all contain adjectives formed by conversion formed by conversion. However, it has already been argued that such collocations should be seen as compounds, which makes it unnecessary to view such elements as instances of conversion. Quirk suggest that when such elements can occur not only in attributive position but also in predicative position, it is possible to speak of conversion to an adjective.

On the basis of This window is bow This teacher is head This airplane is model This wall is stone they would thus conclude that, in the examples above, head and stone but not bow and model have become adjectives by conversion. But this introduces a distinction between two kinds of modifier which is not relevant elsewhere in the grammar and which masks a great deal of similarity. It is therefore not clear that this suggestion is of any great value. This is not meant to imply that conversion to an adjective is impossible, merely that it is least controversial that conversion is involved where the form is not used attributively.

Where the form is used attributively, criteria for concluding that conversion has taken place must be spelled out with great care. Apart from those mentioned, possible criteria are the ability to be used in the comparative and superlative, the ability to be modified by and very, the ability to be used as a base for adverbial -ly or nominal -ness suffixation.

It must be pointed out that very few adjectives fit all these criteria. Marginal cases of conversion. There are cases of change in form class from a verb to a noun and from a verb to an adjective which do not involve any affixation, but which are not clearly instances of conversion. These are cases there is a shift of stress, frequently with a concomitant change in segmental form, but no change in the morphophonemic form or in the orthography. Established examples of verb noun shift kind are abstract, discount, import, refill, transfer Gimson 2 , and of verb adjective shift abstract, frequent, moderate, perfect.

There is a certain amount of evidence that, at least in some varieties of English, these distinction are no longer consistently drawn, and such examples are becoming clear cases of conversion. Nevertheless, the pattern is still productive, particularly so in the nominalization of phrasal verbs established examples are show off, walr-over and recent examples are hang-up, put-down. There is also a kind of partial conversion where a noun ending in a voiceless fricative but excluding is turned into a verb by replacing the final consonant with the corresponding voiced fricative.

The process is no longer productive. Examples are belief believe, sheath sheathe, advice advise. Clear cases of conversion. The least clear cases of conversion have been considered first, but there are innumerable perfectly clear cases.

For many types a variety of subclassifications is possible. Thus instances of noun verb conversion can be classified according to whether the noun shows location to garage the car or instrument to hammer a nail and so on, or according to formal criteria of whether the base is simplex or complex and so on. No attempt is made below to distinguish of these kinds. The major kinds of conversion are noun verb, verb noun, adjective noun and adjective verb. Established examples of noun verb conversion are to badger, to bottle, to bridge, to commission, to mail, to mushroom, to skin, to vecation.

Recent examples are to chopper, to data-dank, to leaflet, to network, and to trash. Established examples of verb noun conversion are a call, a command, a dump, a guess, a spy and recent examples are a commute, a goggle, and an interrupt. Established examples of adjective verb conversion are to better, to dirty, to empty, to faint, to open, to right and a recent example is to total a car. Established examples of adjective noun conversion are relatively rare and are frequently restricted in their syntactic occurrence.

For example, the poor cannot be made plural or have any other determiner. Less restricted examples are a daily, a regular, a roast. This type seems to have become much more productive recently, and recent examples includes a creative, a crazy, a double, a dyslexic, a gay, a given, a nasty. Prepositions, conjunctions, adverbs, interjections and even affixes can all act as bases of conversion, as in shown by to up prices, but me no buts, the hereafter, to heave-no a recent example and a maxi this might be a case of clipping. Moreover, most of these form classes can undergo conversion into more than one form class, so that a preposition down, for example, can become a verb he downed his beer, a noun he has a down on me and possibly an adjective the down train. Extrocentric phrase compounds might also be classified here as instances of conversion of whole phrase.

Established examples where the phrase acts as a noun are an also-ran, a forget-me-not, a has-been and a recent examples as a dont-know. An established example where the phrase acts as an adjective is under- the-weather.

Derivation by a zero-morpheme. The term zero-derivation. Derivation without a derivative morpheme occurs in English as well as mother languages. Its characteristic is that a certain stem is used for the formation of a categorically different word without a derivative element being added.

In synchronic terminology, they are syntagmas whose determinatum is not expressed in the significant form. The significate content is represented in the syntagma but zero marked i.e. it has no counterpart in form loan vb make up loan, look substantive is act, instance of look ing. As the nominal and verbal forms which occur most frequently have no ending end a factor which seems to have played a part in the coining of the term conversion by Kruisinga 6 are those in which nouns and verbs are recorded in dictionaries, such words as loan, look may come to be considered as converted nouns or verbs.

It has become customary to speak of the conversion of substantive adjectives and verbs. The term conversion has been used for various things. Kruisinga 6 himself speaks of conversion whenever a word takes on function which is not its basic one, as the use of an adjective as a primary the poor, the British, shreds of pink, at his best. He includes quotation words his I dont knows and the type stone wall i.e. substantives used as preadjuncts. One is reminded of Ballys transposition.

Koziol 8 follows Kruisingas treatment and Biese 3 adopts the same method. Their standpoints is different. The foregoing examples illustrate nothing but syntactic patterns. That poor presented by the definite article, restricted to the plural, with no plural morpheme added can function as a primary, or that government, as in government job, can be used as preadgunct, is a purely syntactic matter.

At the most it could be said, with regard to the poor, that an inflectional morpheme understood but zero marked. However inflectional morphemes have a predominantly function character while the addition of lexical content is of secondary importance. As for government job the syntactic use of primary as a preadjunct is regularly unmarked, so no zero morpheme can be claimed.

On the other hand, in government-al, -al adds lexical content, be it ever so little pertaining to characterizing government. Therefore governmental is a syntagma while government job is not. That the phrase jar-off can be used as a preadjunct is again a syntactic matter. Characterized adverbs do not develop such functions in any case. We will not therefore, used the term conversion. As a matter of fact, nothing is converted, but certain stem are used for the derivation of lexical syntagmas, with the determinatum assuming a zero form. For similar reasons, the term functional change is infelicitous.

The term itself doesnt enter another functional category, which becomes quite evident when it is considered the inflected forms. Endings and derivation. In inflected languages the derivant and derivative usually have a characteristic nominal or verbal ending. But, ending are not derivative morphemes. When English was still a more amply inflected language, the present type existed, but inflectional differences were more in evidence.

Cf. the OE verbs besceopian, fugelian, gamenian, hearmian, freon freogian, dernian and their respective bases besceop, fugol, and the weakening of ending was little bearing on this subject. With regard to denominate derivation, however, it is interesting to note that the leveling of endings brought about the loss of distinction in ME between the OE conjugations. The -an of ryth-an as well as the -ian of loc-ian resulted in -en. This reducted the number of patterns for denominal verbs to one. Derivation connection between verbs and nouns.

With respect to both denominal verbs type loan verb f. loan substantive and deverbal substantives type look substantive f look verb it can be seen that as early as Old English a derivational connection existed between the present-infinitive stem of weak verb on the one hand and the stem of nouns on the other. As for deverbal substantive, there was some competition in the early stages of the language.

Like other Germanic languages, Old English had strong verbs that were connected with substantives containing an ablaut vowel of the verb ridan rad, bindan bend, beran bora. However, this derivational type was unproductive so far back as Old English. The present-infinitive stem of strong verbs came to be felt to represent the derivative basis for deverbal substantives in exactly the same way as did the corresponding stem of weak verbs ride verb ride substantive look verb look substantive.

But this contention of Bieses needs qualification these facts indicate the resistance should by strong verbs to the process of converting them into nouns before, owing to the introduction of weak inflections, a distinct idea of a universal verb-stem had been developed. Many of the verbs had weak forms that derived substantives at an early date have either never had weak forms are rare or later than the substantives. Verbs such as bite, fall, feel, fold, freeze, have, grind, hide make steal, tread are cases in point.

This goes to show that the existence of weak verb forms is incidental to the rise of a derivational connection between the present infinitive stem of strong verbs and the stem of substantive. This derivational connection is partly due to class where a strong verb and a substantive of the same root existed in OE and where phonetic development resulted in closely resembling forms for both in ME. OE for, faru was fare by the end of the 12th century while the corresponding OE verb faran had reached the stage of faren or fare about the same time. Other examples of pairs are bidan stay bid delay, dwelling place, bindan bind bind band, tie, drincan drink drinc, drinca drink, fleotan float fleot place, where water flows, helpan help help, hreowan rue hreow rue, slepan sleep sl p, slep sleep.

The derivational relation as it have been described them were fully established around 200. Zero-derivation as a specifically English process. It is usually assumed that the loss of ending gave rise to derivation by a zero morpheme.

Jespersen 5 gives a somewhat to simplifying picture of its rise and development. As a great many native nouns and verbs had come be identical in form, as the same things happened with numerous originally French words, it was quite natural that the speech-instinct should take it as a matter of course that whenever the need of a verb arose, it might be formed without any derivative ending from the corresponding substantive.

He called the process specifically English. As a matter of fact, derivation by a zero morpheme is neither specifically English nor does it start, as Jespersens presentation would make it appear when most ending had disappeared. Bieses 3 study shows quit clearly that it began to develop on a larger scale at the beginning of the 13th century, i.e. at a time when final verbal -n had not yet been dropped, when the plural ending of the present was not yet -en or zero, and when the great influx of French loan words had not yet started.

Bauer doesnt think that the weakening of the inflectional system had anything to do with the problem of zero derivation. Stems are immediate elements for the speaker, who is aware of the syntagmatic character of an inflected form. He therefor has no trouble in connecting verbal and nominal stems provided they occur in sufficiently numerous pairs to establish a derivational pattern. In Latin which is a highly inflected language, denominal verbs are numerous corona coronare, catena catenare, lacrima lacrimare cumulus cumulare, locus locare, truncus truncare, nomen, nomin- nominare sacer sacrare.

In Modern Spanish there are full sets of verbal ending though in the declension only gender and number are expressed both types of zero-derivation are very productive. The weakening of the inflectional system in English, therefor, cant have much to do with development of zero-derivation. On the other hand, it cannot be denied that despite the relative productivity of corresponding derivational types in other languages, the derivative range the English patterns, that of denominal verbs, is still greater.

The explanation of this seems to de that English, unlike Latin, French, Spanish, or German, never had any competitive types. So, whenever a derivation was made nouns, it followed the one pattern that existed, i.e. derivation by zero morpheme. The only derivative morphemes PE has for denominal verbs are -ate, -ize, -ify. They have restricted range of derivative force -ate is latinizing and leaned, -ify is learned while -ize is chiefly technical.

All three derive almost exclusively on a Latin morphologic basis. The suffixal type dark-en was not originally a deadjectival pattern in any case, it would have to a certain extent rivaled the type idle verb f. Idle adjective only. Derivation by a morpheme, esp. The type loan verb f. Loan substantive, must therefore be considered the norm and is quite naturally very strong in English.

In German, there are many competitive types. It is bath mutated and unmutated verbs faul-en, hart-en, draht-en, haut-en. There are also denominal verbs with a derivative morpheme stein-ig-en, rein-ig-en with a foreign morpheme telefon-ier-en, lack-ier-en. In addition, German makes use of the prefixes be er ver Such types as ver-rohen, ver-jung-er, vergrosser-n er-kalt-en, er-leichter-n be-end-ig-en, be-herz-ig-en, ver-eid-ig-en have no counterparts in English. English be- has never played a serious role in denominal derivation.

Nor has the type em-bed ever become productive to any larger extent. The productivity of the type loan verb f. Loan substantive seems to be thus reasonably for. The deverbal type look substantive f. Look verb has been less prolific and is partly bound up with certain syntactic patterns of grouping. For this, it is do had competitive patterns. There are the suffixal types arriv-al, break-ade, guid-ance, improve-ment, organiz-ation and the verbal substantive type writ-ing though the latter has now chiefly role of deriving action nouns proper.

This is the reason why so many zero-derivatives from verbs of Latin and French origin, coined the 15th and 16th centuries, were subsequently replaced by suffixal derivatives in -al, -age, -ance, ment. After 1650 the suffix formation have completely gained the upper hand of the direct conversion of the disyllabic and trisyllabic words derived from French and Latin verbs Biese. Zero-derivation with loan-words.

As for Latin and French words and derivation from, there are comparatively few derivatives before Biese 3 . French words were for some time felt to be foreign elements and were not converted with the same ease as native stems were. The phenomenon is in no way different from the one it is observed with derivation by suffixes. Loan words remain strangers for a time, and it usually takes time before a derivation type is applied to a heterogeneous class of words.

Zero - derivation was facilitated by the eo-existence of borrowed substantives and verbs as anchor substantive a 880 L anchor verb e 1230 the OED has doubts, but F ancrer is recorded in the 12th e as Bloeh. Account substantive 1260 verb 1303, change substantive 1225 verb 1230, charge substantive 1225 verb 1297, cry substantive 1275 verb 1225, dance substantive 1300 verb 1300, double adjective 1225 verb 1290, doubt substantive 1225 verb 1225, poison substantive 1230 verb 13 , rule substantive 1225 verb 1225. There are quite a few verbs with French roods for which no French verbs are recorded and which may accordingly be treated as zero derivatives feeble verb 1225 adjective 1175, hardy verb 1225 adjective 1225, master verb 1225 substantive a 1000, pool verb 1275 adjective 1200, saint verb 1225 substantive 1175. On the other hand, the substantive grant 1225 may be derived from the verb grant 1225. It is only after 1300 that the process of zero-derivation is as firmly rooted with French as with native words.

Though French originals for later English words may occur, it is just as safe to consider them as derivatives, as centre verb 1610 fr, centre substantive 1374, combat verb 1564 fr, combat substantive 1567 or the reverse, guard verb 1500 fr, guard substantive 1426 and others.

Words of Scandinavian origin were more easily incorporated than French words, and derivation occurs as early as the 13th c. trist trust, boon ask as a boon, pray for, brod shoot, sprout, smithy make into a smithy a.o. see Biese 3 . The illustration of various types.

Type loan verb fr. loan substantive desubstantival verbs. Many PE verbs. go back to OE answer andsharu andswarian, blossom blostm blostnian, claw clawu clawian, fish fisc fiscian, fire fyr fytian, harm hearm hearmian, wonder wundor wundrian, bill strike with the bill, peck, ground bring to the ground, loan 1240 , back OE , butter OE , experiment ME , lamb OE , night OE , piece ME , pit cart into a pit OE , plank ME , plate ME , plow, plough OE , plague ME , priest OE , promise ME , prose ME , ridge OE , rivet ME , rode ME , root EME , sack OE , sauce season ME , scale ME , screen ME , shoulder OE , side OE , silver OE , sponge OE , spot ME , story ME , streak OE , summer OE , table ME , thong OE , tin OE , veil ME , winter OE , all before 1500. Angle run into a corner ME , balance ME , butcher ME , cipher ME , cloister ME , coffin ME , collar ME , colt run wild as a colt ME , cipher ME , fancy 1465 , fin OE , gesture ME , girdle OE , glove OE , gossip OE , grade 1511 , husk ME , kennel ME , knob ME , ladle OE , latch ME , launder ME , lecture ME , libel ME , mother OE , neighbor OE , place ME , pole ME , riddle speak in riddles OE , shell OE , shop ME , star OE , stomach be offended ME , sun OE , vision ME , all 16th century blanket ME , casket 1467 , lamp ME , leaf OE , pilot 1530 , race run ME , soldier ME , all 17th century Capture 1541 , diamond ME , onion ME , stocking 1583 , tour ME , all 18th century Scrimmage 1470 , shin OE , signal ME , torpedo 1520 , vacation ME , wolf eat like a wolf OE , 19th century, major 1927. It would be difficult to give a complete list of derivatives as there is an ever growing tendency verbs from substantives without derivative morphemes.

A few recent are service, contact 1929 , audition, debut, package, chairman, page, date 1928 , process 1945 , waitress 1946 , pressure not in OED or Spl feature rec as in the play features. Mencken 9 gives many more, most of which are, however, hardly used. It is likewise useless to try a classification to sense-groups, as there is no class-denoting formative.

The verb may denote almost any verbal action connected with the basis of the underlying substantive. The verb bed has or has had the meanings spread a bed, put to bed with various implications, go to bed, sleep with, and there are more technical meanings.

Bladin 4 had already pointed out that every action or occurrence can be designated by a verb derived from the very noun the idea of which most easily enters the mind of the person wanting to state a fact, and if Jespersen says that it is difficult to give a general definition of the sense-relation between substantive and de-substantival verbs, this is rather an understatement.

It may be recognized certain groups, as put in, furnish, cover, affect, but it should be noted that each of these senses is only one the many which the same verb has or may have. Biese 3 , therefore, makes no attempt at classification, and he is certainly right in doing so. It may, however, be worthy of note that the privative sense as in dust remove the dust from is frequent only with technical terms denoting various kinds of dressing or cleaning.

Exs are bur wool or cotton, burl cloth, poll, pollard trees, bone, gut, scale fish. The meaning of a certain verb is clear in a certain speech situation.

That brain means smash the b. ,can preserve in cans, winter pass the winter, is a result of given circumstances which establish the bridge of understanding between the speaker and the person or persons spoken to. There are derivatives from proper names, as boycott 1880 orig. spelt with a capital, from the name of Captain Boycott who was first boycotted , Shanghay 1871 drug and press on board a vessel, Zeppelin 1916 bomb from a zeppelin also clipped zap. Some verbs often occur in the -ing substantive only originally or chiefly, while finite verb forms or infinitives are not or rarely used, as hornpiping dancing a hornpipe no verb rec slimming, orcharding cultivation of fruit trees no verb rec Dialling the art of construction dials, speeching, electioneering, engineering, parlamenteering, volunteering are the original forms.

Converted cpds with -monger for a second-word are current only in the -ing form merit-mongering, money-mongering etc Innings are not matched by any other verb form, nor are cocking cock-fighting, hopping hop-picking, moon-shining illicit distilling and others. Type idle verb fr. idle adjective. deadjectival verbs. To the OE period go back bitter, busy, cool, fair, fat, light, open, right, yellow obs black, bright, dead, strong, old. From the period between about 1150 and 1200 are recorded obs sick suffer illness, soft, low obs meek, hory, hale. The following date from the period between about 1200 and 1300 Biese has included the Cursor Mundi in this period black, brown, loose, slight, better, blind obs hardly, certain, rich, wide, broad, less. From the 14th century are recorded ready, clear, grey, sore, pale, full, dull, round, gentle, English, tender, perfect obs able, sound, weak, unable, honest, noble. From the 15th century purple, stale, clean, from the 16th century shallow, slow, quiet, empty, bloody, idle, equal, dirty, parallel and many other now obs words, as Biese points out. The 17th century coined crimson, giddy, worst, blue, gallant, shy, tense, ridicule, unfit, ruddy and many how obs words.

Biese. From 18th century Are recorded net gain as a net sum 1758, total once 1716, then 1859 , negative, northern said of landscape, invalid enter on the sick-list, queer cheat, from the 19th century desperate drive desperate, stubborn, sly move in a stealthy manner, chirk make cheerful, gross make a gross profit 1884, southern said of wind, aeriform, true. From our century there are such words as pretty, wise, lethal, big. Usually, deadjectival verbs denote change of state, and the meaning is either become or make Intransitive verbs with meaning be as idle, sly, equal from quite a small group.

Some verbs have a comparative or superlative as root better, best, worst, perhaps lower.

Type out verb fr out particle verbs derived from locative particles. Derivation from locative particles is less common than the preceding types. In Old English there are yppan, fremman with i-mutation from up, fram, framian, utian.

Later are over to master 1456, obs under cast down 1502, off put off 1642, down 1778, nigh draw near 1200, thwart 1250, west move towards the west 1381, south 1725, north 1866, east 1858. These words, however, are not very common except out and thwart. Type hail verb fr hail interjection verbs derived from minor particles. Derivation from exclamation and interjection most of there onomatopoeias is more frequent.

It will, however, be noted that many of these conversions have undergone functional and formal changes only without acquiring a well - grounded lexical existence, their meaning merely being say, utter the sound. Exs are hail 1200, nay say nay, refuse 13 , mum 1399, obs. Hosht reduce to silence etc whoo 16th century, humph 17th century, encore, dee-hup to a horse, pshaw, halloa, yaw speak affectedly, hurrah 18th century, tally-ho fox-hunting term, boo, yes, heigh-ho sigh, bravo, tut, bow-wow, haw-haw, boo-hoo weep noisily etc. Biese 3 also Jespersen 5 . The meaning say may occur with other words also when they are used as exclamation or interjections, as with iffing other verb forms are not recorded, hence order hence obs 1580 . And it may be reckoned here all the words of the type sir call sir. From about 1600 on, geminated forms also occur as verbs.

A few have been mentioned in the foregoing paragraph others are snip-snap 1593 ,dingle-dangle, ding-dong, pit-pat 17th century, pitter-patter, wiggle-waggle 18th century, criss-cross, rap-tap, wig-wag 19th century etc. The limits of verbal derivation.

Derivation from suffixed nouns is uncommon.

Bieses 3 treatment of the subject suffers from a lack of discrimination. He has about 600 examples of substantives and adjectives but the suffixes are mere terminations.

Words such herring, pudding, nothing, worship are not derivatives. The terminations -ace, -ice, -ogue, -y as in enemy have never had any derivative force.

Theoretically it would seem that the case of a suffixal composite such as boyhood is not different from that of a fill compound such as spotlight. But obviously the fact that suffixes are categorizers generally prevents suffixal derivatives from becoming the determinants of pseudo-compound verbs. There are very few that are in common use, such as waitress rec package rec chiefly in form packaged, packaging, manifold OE obsolescent today, forward 1596, referee 1889, such adjectives as dirty, muddy.

Many more are recorded in OED as countess, patroness, squiress, traitress play the, fellowship, kingdom a.o Another reason seems to be still more important. Many of the nominal suffixes derive substantives from verbs and it would be contrary to reason to form such verbs as arrival, guidance, improvement, organization when arrive, guide, improve, organize exist. Similar consideration apply to deadjectival derivatives like freedom or idleness.

The verb disrupture is recorded in OED though only in participial forms but it is not common. Reverence is used as a verb, but it is much older 13 , 1290 than the verb revere 1661 . It should also be noted that the alternation revere reverence shows characteristics of vowel change and stress which are irregular with derivation by means of -ance, -ence. For same reason reference is not a regular derivative from refer, which facilitated the coinage reference provide with references etc. 1884. There are no verbal derivatives from prefixed words either.

The verb unfit make unfit 1611 is isolated. Type look substantive fr. look verb deverbal substantives. Deverbal substantives are much less numerous than denominal verbs. The frequency-relation between the two types has been approximately the same in all periods of the language. An exception is to be made for the second half of the 13th century when the absolute number of conversion-substantives is larger that of the verbs formed from substantives Biese 3 . Form the 13th century are recorded unless otherwise mentioned in parentheses, the resp. Verbs are OE dread 1175 , have, look, steal, weep, call 1225 , crack, noise, dwell, hide, make, mislike, mourn, show, spit, spittle, stint, wrest act of twisting a.o. From the later ME period are recorded indications in parentheses refer to the respective verbs fall OE , feel OE , keep OE , lift ME , move ME , pinch ME , put ME , run OE , snatch ME , sob ME , walk OE , wash OE . From the 16th century date craze ME , gloom ME , launch ME , push ME , rave ME , say OE , scream ME , anub ME , swim OE , wave OE from the 17th century contest 1579 , converse ME , grin OE , laugh OE , produce 1499 , sneeze 1493 , take ME , yawn OE from the 18th century finish ME , hand OE , pry ME , ride OE , sit OE . From the 19th century fix ME , meet OE , shampoo 1762 , spill OE . As for the meaning of deverbal substantive, the majority denote the act or rather a specific instance of what the verbal idea expresses quote, contest, fall, fix, knock, lift etc. This has been so from the beginning Hertrampf and Biese. The abstract nouns, including nouns of action, are not only the most common type of conversion- substantives they are also those of the greatest importance during the early periods of the development of conversions Biese. The conversion-substantive used in a personal or concrete sense are, especially in the earlier stages, of comparatively slight importance ib Concrete senses show mince minced meat, produce product, rattle instrument, sprout branch, shoot branch, shear shorn animal, sink sewer, clip instrument, cut passage, opening, spit spittle, stride one of a flight of steps.

Sbs denoting the result of the verbal action are catch, take, win victory, cut provision, find, melt melded substance, snatch excerpt from a song e.c. Place-denoting are fold, bend, slip, wush sandbank, dump etc. Sbs denoting the impersonal agent are draw attraction, catch of a gate, a catching question etc sting animal organ, tread part of the sole that touches the ground, do, take-in, all tricky contrivance, wipe handkerchief sl etc. There are also number of substantives denoting a person.

OE knew the type boda bode corresponding to L scriba, OHG sprecho which in ME was replaced by the type hunter.

Several words survived, however, as bode, help OE help, hint the last quotation in OED is from 1807 , and they are occasional ME formations, as ally 1380 if it is not rather French allie but could be apprehended as formed after the type. Obs. Cut a term of abuse 1490 does not seem to have any connection with the verb cut, and scold scolding woman 1200 is doubtful, the verb is first quoted 1377. The word wright, which now occurs only as a second-word of cpds cart-wright etc. is no longer apprehended as an agent noun belonging to wolk. Otherwise all deverbal substantives denoting a personal agent are of Modern English origin, 16th century or more recent.

The type probably came into existence under the influence of the types pickpocket and runabout.

Exs are romp child or woman fond of romping 1706, flirt 1732, crack cracksman 1749 thieves sl, bore tiresome p. 1812, sweep chimney sweeper 1812, coach tutor, trainer 1848 misleadingly classed in OED, as if from substantive coach, discard discarded person. The great number of depreciative terms is striking.

For the sake of convenience it is repeated here the examples of such personal deverbal substantives as form the second-words of cpds upstart 1555, by-blow 1595 obs. By-slip 1670 bastard, chimney-sweep 1614, money-grub 1768, shoeblack and bootbleck 1778, new-come new arrival 1577, bellhop, carhop rec. The formation if deverbal substantives may be considered from the angle of syntactical grouping.

No doubt there are different frequency-rates for a word according to the position which it has in a sentence.

Biese 3 has devoted a chapter to the question and has established various types of grouping which have influenced the growth of the type. It can be seen that deverbal substantives frequently occur in prepositional groups to be in the know, that type are often the object of give, make, have, take less so of other verbs, that only 11 of the examples show the deverbal substantives as subject of the sentence and that they are frequently by adjuncts.

The most important patterns are be in the know and have a look. Exs of the first type are phrases such as in the long run, upon the go, with a thrust of his hair, after this sit, for a tell, for the kill, for the draw, of English make, at a qulp, etc. As for the t. have a look, the use of phrasal verbs with conversion-substantives may be said to be a very marked feature during all periods from early ME up to the present time. As shown by these quotations, the origins of this use may be said to go back as far as the OE period Biese 3 . Exs are have a wash, a smoke, a swim, a chat etc give a laugh, a cry, a break, a toss, a whistle, the chick, the go-by etc take a ride, a walk, a swim, a read, the lead etc make a move, a dive, a bolt, a bow etc. etc. It will be interesting to compare zero-derivatives with the -ing substantives.

Historical speaking there is no longer a competition so far as the formation of common substantives is concerned.

The number of new-formed -ing substantives has been steadily decreasing since the beginning of the MoE period.

According to Biese the figures for newly introduced -ing substantives, as compared with zero-derivatives of the same verbs, are as followes 13th century 62, 14th 80, 15th 19, 16th 12, 17th century 5, 18th century 2, 19th century 0. Biese 3 has obviously considered the rise of new forms only, but the semantic development of -ing substantives. Otherwise his figures would have been different. Any verb may derive an -ing substantive which can take the definite article. The -ing then invariably denotes the action of the verb the smoking of the gentlemen disturbed me. The zero-derivative, as compared with the ing, never denotes the action but gives the verbal ideal in a nominalized form, i.e. the notional content of the verbal idea with the secondary implication of the idea act the gentlemen withdrew for a smoke.

In their use with phrasal verbs -ing forms have become obsolete, whereas there is an ever increasing number of conversion substantives used in conjunction with verbs like make, take etc Biese 3 . On the other hand, common substantives in ing are now chiefly denominal, denoting something concrete, chiefly material which eliminates ing as a rival for zero-derivatives. According to Biese 3 this distinction is already visible in the early stages of conversion.

Biese points out that a prepositional substantive following a substantive is almost always a genitivus subjectivus the grind of wheels, whereas the same type of group following an -ing substantive is most often a genitivens objectivus which is certainly an observation to the point, as it shows the verbal character of the -ing substantives as compared with the more nominal character of zero-derivatives. A few instances of semantically differentiated derivatives are bother bothering, build building, proceeds proceedings, meet meeting, set setting, turn turning, bend bending, find finding, sit sitting, cut cutting, feel feeling, paint painting.

Sometimes deverbal substantives are only idiomatic in the plural it divers me the creeps the jumps, turn on the weeps A sl, have the prowls A sl, the bends caisson disease, for keeps for good. An apparent exception are derivatives from expressive verbs in -er type clatter and -le type sparkle which are pretty numerous Biese 3 , but in fact most of these verbs are not derivatives in the way verbs in -ize or -ify are, because few simple verbs exist alongside of the composites.

These words are better described as composites of expressive elements, so the suffixes are not categorizes.

Derivation from prefixed verbs is restricted to composites with the prefixes dis mis inter and re- see the respective prefixes. With other prefixes, there have only been attempts at nominal derivation. Biese 3 has befall, beget, begin, behave, belay, belove, beseech, bespeak, bestow, betide, betrust as substantives. But they were all short-lived and rare. With the exception of belay 1908, a technical term, none seems to be in use today.

Biese 3 has established a so-called detain- type, i.e. substantives derived from what he considers to be prefixed verbs. It do not seen the point of this distinction as one could analyze very few of his 450 words or so. The majority are unit words. Zero-derivation and stress. It shall now be made a few remarks about such types as have not been treated in this chapter. The stressing tendencies differ according to whether the basis is a unit word or a composite, also according to whether derivation is made from a noun or a verb. Nominal derivation from composite verbs involves shift of stress.

Examples are the types runaway blackout, overthrow, interchange, misfit, reprint which are derived from actual or possible verbal composites with the stress pattern The process has not yet come to an end which will explain that the OED, Webster and others very often give stress indications which no longer tally with the speech habits of the majority. Many cbs of the blackout type and all the substantives of the types misfit and reprint are stressed like the verbs resp. Verbal phrases in OED. Of prefixal types only verbs with inter mis- and re- have developed stress-distinguished substantives.

No similar pairs exist for neg. un- no verbal type exists, anyway, reversative un be de- be- and de- are only deverbal. Verbs derived from composite substantives do not change their stress pattern. Cp. such verbs as backwash, background, afterdate, by-pass, counterweight, outlaw, outline, underbrush which are forestressed like their underlying nominal bases.

This also explains the fluctuation in the stressing of counter- verbs, as counter-sign, counter-sink, stressed like the substantives though the verbal stress pattern is middle stress heavy stress. With unit words the current tendency is to retain the stress of the underlying basis in deverbal nouns as well as in denominal verbs. We may call this homologic stressing. Bradin 4 had stated the fact for denominal verbs without, however, discussing the problem as to the obvious exceptions, while Jespersen 5 speaks of such an important thing in ford-formation as the stress-shifting in record substantive and verb. To a certain extent, it is a stress distinction between nouns and verbs which are otherwise homophonous.

This distinctive stress pattern occurs chiefly with disyllabic words, record substantive record verb. examples are contract, accent, affix, infix, prefix, suffix, augment, impress, concert, contrast, convert, escort, essay, export, object, subject, project, present, progress, protest, survey, torment, transfer.

The number of non-shifting examples is much greater, however. It will be first given instances of forestressed words with homologic stress comment, compact, exile, figure, plaster, preface, prelude, prison, quarrel, climax, focus, herald, process, program, triumph, waitress, rivet, segment, sojourn, turmoil, contact, bring or come into contact, congress meet in a congress, incense burn incense, probate.

To these may be added such verbs as are felt to be derived from a substantive and therefore forestressed like the underlying bases, at least in AE accent, conflict, concrete as in concrete a wall, also in OED , contract as in contract a document, digest as digest a book, export, import prob. originating in contrastive stressing, recess as recess a wall, survey in certain senses, torment frequent, transfer the regular stressing as a railway team. The group of non-shifting endstressed words is considerably larger.

Unit words beginning with de dis re- are especially numerous. Examples are accord, advance, assent, attack, decay, delay, defeat, dispatch, despute, escape, exclaim, as a deverbal substantive presenting position of a rifle, precise, relax, remove, repay, reform, support Biese 3 . On the other hand, it is found instances of distinctive stressing in AE address, conserves, discard, discharge are often heard with forestress when substantives, also relay and research reject substantive with forestress is the only pronunciation possible.

Of these, relay and research may be explained as reinterpretations after the t. reprint substantive reprint verb reject is perh. influenced by subject, object, project, traject. In any case, this tendency towards distinctive stress in deverbal substantives is weak as compared with that towards homologic stress. To sum up the tendency with denominal verbs is to give them the stress of the underlying nominal basis, which has in many cases led to homologic stress with all or part of the verbal meanings versus older distinctive stress.

Deverbal substantives, on the whole, show the same inclination to homologic stress. But there is also a weak tendency towards distinctive stress, though chiefly in AE. As for the tendency toward stress distinction between nominal and verbal homophones pointed out by Jespersen 5 , it was perhaps vaguely on the analogy of composites that it came into existence.

The original stress with these loans from French or Latin was on the last syllable F absent, L abstract um, so verbs retained this stress all the more easily as many native verbs were so stressed become, believe, forbid, forget, mislead etc whereas almost all disyllabic native substantives, unit words as well as composites were forestressed the few contrary examples such as unhealth, unrest, untruth, belief hardly count against the overwhelming majority. This may have led to a tendency towards forestress with non-native disyllabic substantives too. But what has taken on the character of a strong derivative device with composites has proved much weaker with unit words on account of their entirely different structure.

Further development seems to point in the direction of homologic stressing. Combination of the type hanger-on may be mentioned here. As they are functionally characterized by the suffix -er, the absence of stress shift is only natural.

The stress pattern of the underlying verbal phrase is retained. Practical part. At first, I would like to mention that word-formation is not learned at all neither at primary nor at secondary school. But some items of it we can find there. Ive analyzed two courses Russian English by Vereshchagina, Pretykina and foreign Magic Time one. The course by Vereshchagina, Pretykina consists of the text book, the teachers book, the reading book, the activity book, the audio cassette.

In the book for the 3rd class Ive found the points of word-formation the suffixal formation of adverbs. There is said that adverbs usually derive from adjectives by adding the suffix -ly quick-quickly bad-badly slow-slowly At the same time there are given some exceptions good-well. Remember! bad-badly slow-slowly But good-well quick-quickly dear-dearly Its offered to children to do the exercise, where the task is to read and compare. She is a slow reader.

She reads slowly. He is a quick runner. He runs quickly. She is a bad cook. She cooks badly. He is a good footballer. He plays football well. It is interesting to mention that in the one exercise there are the words derived in suffixal way of word-formation and also a conversion cook N and cook V. But nothing is explained. Magic Time is a fully integrated two-level course for children learning English as a foreign language. Its also may be used either with students who have had a first introduction to English or with complete beginners.

The 1st 2nd level consist of the students book, the activity book, the teachers book, the set of 2 cassettes. But there is not any word about word formation.

Conclusion

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