prefixes and suffixes can also alter the part-of-speech meaning, e. g. the prefix and its allomorph can form verbs from en- em- noun and adjective stems (embody, enable, endanger), post- and can form adjectives from noun stems (pre-election pre- the suffixes form campaign, post-war events), -er, -ing, -ment nouns from verbal stems (teacher, dancing, movement), -ness, are used to form nouns from adjective stems (clannishness, -ity marginality). In the English language of the second half of the twentieth century there developed so called block compounds, that is compound words which have a uniting stress but a split spelling, such as etc. Such compound chat show, pinguin suit, words can be easily mixed up with word-groups of the type so called nominative binomials. Such linguistic stone wall, units serve to denote a notion which is more specific than the notion expressed by the second component and consists of two nouns, the first of which is an attribute to the second one. If we compare a nominative binomial with a compound noun with the structure N+N we shall see that a nominative binomial has no unity of stress. The change of the order of its components will change its lexical meaning, e. g. is kid who is a vid kid “a means video-film for or else kid vid video fan” while “a kids” means for and means lamp lamp oil oil lamp “oil lamps” “a which uses oil for language units we can burning”. Among also mark out word combinations of different structural types of idiomatic and non-idiomatic character, such as the first and There are also sentences fiddle, high road round table. which are studied by grammarians. Thus, we can draw the conclusion that in Modern English the following language units can be defined: morphemes, splinters, words, nominative binomials, non- idiomatic and word-combinations, sentences. Exercise 1. Make the morphemic analysis of the
prefixes and suffixes can also alter the part-of-speech meaning, e. g. the prefix en- and its allomorph em- can form verbs from noun and adjective stems (embody, enable, endanger), post- and pre- can form adjectives from noun stems (pre-election campaign, post-war events), the suffixes -er, -ing, -ment form nouns from verbal stems (teacher, dancing, movement), -ness, -ity are used to form nouns from adjective stems (clannishness, marginality). In the English language of the second half of the twentieth century there developed so called block compounds, that is compound words which have a uniting stress but a split spelling, such as chat show, pinguin suit, etc. Such compound words can be easily mixed up with word-groups of the type stone wall, so called nominative binomials. Such linguistic units serve to denote a notion which is more specific than the notion expressed by the second component and consists of two nouns, the first of which is an attribute to the second one. If we compare a nominative binomial with a compound noun with the structure N+N we shall see that a nominative binomial has no unity of stress. The change of the order of its components will change its lexical meaning, e. g. vid kid is “a kid who is a video fan” while kid vid means “a video-film for kids” or else lamp oil means “oil for lamps” and oil lamp means “a lamp which uses oil for burning”. Among language units we can also mark out word combinations of different structural types of idiomatic and non-idiomatic character, such as the first fiddle, high road and round table. There are also sentences which are studied by grammarians. Thus, we can draw the conclusion that in Modern English the following language units can be defined: morphemes, splinters, words, nominative binomials, and idiomatic word-combinations, sentences. Exercise 1. Make the morphemic analysis of the non-