Exercise 1

WHAT KIND OF CLASS WORD IS THE BOLD ONES?

• There are advertisements for the job in the website of UMM
• If you want to sell your guitar, why don't you advertise it on the internet?
• Joe Taslim looks so attractive!!
• Please announce the faculty about this information!
• You must wait for the confirmation letter before paying the heregistration!
• Please, Think logically 
• Obama is the most popular politician in the world
• Many Students say that they aren't interested in politics
• African American is more politically correct than black 

COMPLETE THE SENTENCES WITH A WORD DERIVED FROM THE WORD IN THE BOX

CREATE   CRITIC   DECIDE   DIRECT   DECORATE   ADD   HONEST   SCIENCE   ELECTRIC   ENTERTAIN   EXPECT   RESPOND   ALLOW   FASHION

1. Artists must be , otherwise they just repeat what they see or hear                  
2. Why are you so  of his work? He's just doing his best.                                             
3. Have you made up your mind? We need to know your  as soon as possible.          
4. He's too shy to look people  when he talks to them                                    
5. Have they put the Christmas  yet?                                                                  
6. They put too many unnecesary  in food                                                         
7. I  think that there's no point in arguing with him. Just ignore him.     
8. Extraterrestrial life has not been  proved yet.                                     
9. Why don't you call the  if the lights don't work?                                         
10. Music and television are forms of                                                               
11. The concert didn't live up to our                                                                   
12. The electric company admitted their  for the blackout                     
13. Did you use to have  as a child?                                                                                                             
14. I don't like those trousers, no matter how  they are                                                   
15. Life  varies according to country and gender                                                

Guidelines

Guidelines

This blog is addressed to the students who want to learn and practice more as well as the teachers who need additional materials and ideas to teach.This blog is divided into several sections, from theory into practice. In the 'materials' menu, you will find the theory about word formation process and its examples. And for more information and explanations, in this menu, you can see the video either. And if you want to measure your level of understanding, please open 'exercises' menu. This menu consists of two sub menu which each of them has a different level of exercises. Try to done the exercises as best as you can. Since our blog is still on progress, we just have few exercises in this blog. But don’t worry, because we will add the other exercise and the material as well for you as soon as possible.

 If you have any question which you want to ask, you can use the 'forum' on the 'help' menu. We made it just for you, so that we can have a little discussion. Just input your name and email, then let’s have a chat :D

References

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2011/05/14/how-the-internet-is-revolutionizing-education/

https://callhavid.wordpress.com/my-classes/morphology-and-syntax/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHGtn563DQI

http://www.slideshare.net/erensaturnino/morphology-linguistics

http://www.ucd.ie/artspgs/introling/Aronoffmorphology.pdf

http://cowgill.ling.yale.edu/sra/morphology_ecs.htm

Exercise 2

Identify the type of word-formation for each of following words

• Gym – gymnasium

• Pen – penitentiary

• Movie – moving picture 

• Boost (boom+horst) 

• Smoker - smoking-car

• Kodak

• O.K

• Sub – substitute

• Electrocute (electricity&execute)

• To debut

• Pop – popular

• Memo – memorandum

• Phone-telephone

• Try – trial

• S.O.S

• Listerine

• To major

• Blurt (blare&spurt)

• Plane – air-plane

• Dorm – dormitory

• Lab – laboratory

• To vacation

• Vaseline

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Foreword

Foreword

Nowaday, who doesn’t know about internet? Almost everyone in this world use it, even a 10 years child has a facebook. Internet becomes a principle commodity for all people in this world.

Internet has some features such as weblog and wikis which can give a lot of information. Then, free education has never been so accessible, learning becomes more easier. Weblog and wikis become a connection between students, teachers, and experts in all over the world. Benjamin Hubbard the Manager of Webcast at UC Berkeley in thenextweb.com (2011) said:

“I think there’s a wide array of reasons why faculty should be engaged in recording and publishing lectures online. The first is wanting students to have access to materials. The second is for cultivating a really great affinity for a public university that’s providing research and community service. The third is closely aligned with this opportunity to provide educational resources all over the world to those from all walks of life, despite what disadvantages they have faced. It’s so important that we recognize as a public institution that this is something people value greatly and has great value for us too.”

In this blog, the writers discuss the branch of linguistic which is morphology. According to callhavid.wordpress.com (2010), “the study of how the units are combined and the rules of arranging them to form words, their structures and their phonological representation is called Morphology.” More detailed, this blog tells about the creation of new words which is called word formation process. This blog give the explanation about word formation process as well as the examples and exercices.

Theory

MORPHOLOGICAL PROCESSES

A morphological process is a means of changing a stem to adjust its meaning to fit its syntactic and communicational context.

Kinds of Morphological Processes

1. Prefixation

Prefixation is a morphological process whereby a bound morpheme is attached to the front of a root or stem.
      Example: (dis)agree, (un)do, (re)do

2. Suffixation

Suffixation is a morphological process whereby a bound morpheme is attached to the end of a base.         
      Example: health(y), soft(ly), aware(ness)

3. Infixation

Infixation is a morphological process whereby a bound morpheme attaches within a root or stem      
     Example: me-bloody-self, fan-flaming-tastic, guaran-damn-tee

4. Reduplication

Reduplication is consist in the repetition of all or of part of a root or stem to form new words.      
    Example: rumah-rumah (houses), orang-orang (people)

5. Suppletion

Consist in a complete change in the form of a root
    Example: bad-worse-worst, good-better-best

English Word Formation

• In linguistics, word formation is the creation of a new word.

• Word formation is sometimes contrasted with semantic change, which is a change in a single word’s meaning.

Types of Word Formation

1. Compounding

Two or more words joined together to form a new word. 
     Example: Black + jack = blackjack

2. Conversion

Conversion involves forming a new word from an existing identical one.
     Example: He is a rich politican ( rich = adjective )
                   The rich always do what they want ( rich = noun )

3. Clipping

Shortening a word by deleting one or more syllables.
     Example: Influenza = flu

4. Blending

A blend is a word formed by joining parts of two or more older words.
     Example: breakfast + lunch = brunch

5. Back formation

Back formation is word formation that removing and adding affixes from existing word.
     Example: donation ( noun ) >> donate ( verb )

6. Acronyms

Words derived from the initial letters of several words and use them as a new word.          
     Example: LOL – Lot of Laugh

7. Functional Shift

Functional shift is the process that derives new words by moving the part of speech of a word and no changing of its form.
    Example : He runs like a horse  ( like = seperti )
                   They like a rose flower ( like = suka )

8. Morphological misanalysis

Morphological misanalysis is the process that derives new words by moving the part of speech of a word and no changing of its form. This can be because of actual misunderstanding, when we analyze a word that has a similar sound or words from dialog or listen a song.
    Example : here >> hear
                   leave >> live

9. Proper Names

Many places, inventions, activities, etc, are named for persons somehow connected with them.    
    Example: Washington D.C , Jl. Soekarno Hatta 

10. Coinage

Words may also be created without using any of the methods described above and without employing any other word or word parts already in existence.
    Example: kodak, sanyo, honda