Características de la Formación de Palabras

What is lexis and within which field is studied?

What are the main processes of word formation in English?

What is a lexeme and how is it different from a word?

What types of morphemes exist?

What are some examples of suffixes that form nouns?

• -dom

• -hood

• -atory

• -wise

What suffixes are used to form adjectives and what meanings do they add?

• -less

• -er

• -esque

• -th

What is composition in word formation?

• creation of new words by combining two or more roots

• creation of new words by combining more than two word-forms

• creation of new words by combining two or more stems

• creation of new words by combining two or more bases

What is the distinction between compounds and phrases?

• Compounds are always longer than phrases.

• Compounds have different stress patterns than phrases.

• Phrases can never be compounded.

• Compounds are always individual words.

What is conversion in word formation?

• When words are converted to a new grammatical category without morphological modification.

• When two words are combined to form a new one.

• When existing words are shortened.

• When words are repeated to form new ones.

What type of compounds combines both constituents equally?

• Endocentric

• Exocentric

• Copulative

• Appositive