materi lexicology by tika destianindia

Lexicology

WHAT IS LEXICOLOGY ??

‘’The study of the lexicon or lexiss (specified as the vocabulary or total stock bof words of a language )’’

(lipka ,1992:1)

        . in simple ,it is the study of word

What is word ??

·      Orthograpic word

It applies only to the written medium

·      Morphological word

It considers form(morphem)

·      Lexical  word

It comprehends the various form of items which are clodely related by meaning

·       Semantic word

It involves distinguisthing between items which may be morphologically identical but differ in meaning.

Word Structure

Unbelievable

Word(Adj.)

 

                                                             

                                                Prefix                             Root/Base(V)                Suffix

                                                                                                                                               

                                                      Un                                    believe                                                able

 

Believeable

Stem/Base

COMPOUNDING

·        Compounding is a joining of two separate words to produce a single form.

 For example :

·        Home + Work      => HomeWork   

·        Girl + friend                   => Girlfriend

·        Text + Book           => Textbook

·        When the compound is new , a hypen(-) is used between the parts , but as the compound becomes familiar ,the hypen is dropped

  

·        Micro+ linguistics      => micro-linguitics => microlinguistics

·        Supra + segmental      => supra+segmental=>suprasegmental

Blending

Blending is the combination of two separate form to produce a single new term .

Example :

·      Breakfeast+lunch         => brunch

·      Motor+hotel                      => motel

·      Camera+recorder       => camcorder

·      Wireless+fidelity              => wi-fi

·      Universitas+tirtayasa => untirta

Clipping

Process of creating new words by shortening parts of longer words. example :

·      Doctor               => doc

·      Dormitory         => dorm

·      Professor          => prof

·      Facsimile         => fac

·      Influenza         => flu

·      Examination    => exam

·      Telephone       => phone

·      Hyperactive    => hyper

·      Mathematic    => maths

              Backformation

·      A process that creates a new word by removing a real affix from another word

·      A word  (usually a noun) is reduced to form another word af a different type (udually a verb)

Example :

·      Editor  => edit-or =>edit

·      Donation  =>  donate-ion => donate

·      Babysister => babysit-er  => babysit

Acronyms

·      Severe Acute Respiratory sindrome            => SARS

·      Acquired Immune Defiency Syndrome => AIDS

·      Light Amplification by Stimulated              => LASER

Emission of Radiation                                

·      Radio Detecting and Ranging                     =>RADAR                

·      ATM  => auto teller  machine

·      TOEFL  => test of english as a foreign language

·      NATO => north atlantic treaty organization

Abbereviate a longer terms by talking the initial latter .

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