Week 3 - Derivation and Compounding Thursday, September 20, 2018 2:25 PM Compounds - Word formation process that combines two or more lexical categories to forn spoonfeed, spoon-feed Orthographical variations - Danish uses no hyphen for compounds - Korean writes a compound word as 2 separate words - English has inconsistent orthography, sometimes writing compounds as one v hyphen Internal structure of compounds - A compound consists of a head and a modifier - The head carries the core meaning. Determines the compound's lexical categ - Modifier serves to modify the meaning of the word Complex compounds - A compound in which the head and/or modifier is itself a compound. Ex catfo - Compound nouns can be ambiguous - Some languages like right-headed compounds, others like left-headed 4 - English favours right-headed compounds Interaction with derivation - The head and/or modifier of a compound may be a derived word ex election Properties - Stress: compounds are stressed as single words. They have one primary stress - Greenhouse, stress on green; wetsuit, stress on wet. - We can tell that a word is a compound from it having one primary stress, whe words would have their own stress. Inflection - Compounds are inflected as single words. Ex dropkicked, not dropped kick or - When inflected, the word as a whole is inflected, not a single or both separate Endocentric vs exocentric compounds - Endocentric (internally headed): the core meaning is determined by the head. compounds are endocentric - Exocentric ('externally' headed): the overall meaning is idiosyncratic. Ex redne or metaphorical in nature. Inflection of endo- vs exocentric compounds
complex word base. Ex, d, two words or with a . box. hea D dof modifier e: elect-ion date as the two separate pped kicked. ast majority of loudmouth. Colloquial
- Endocentric compound inflection is determined by the head. If the head has irre compound will use that. - Exocentric compounds: inflection is not determined by the head. Instead regula Ex sabertooth-s Language Variation - Languages vary with regard to the internal structure of compounds - Ex Korean is right-headed compounds - Ex Tagalog is left-headed compounds