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1、OnWordFormation★PrefaceLearnalanguage;youmustlearnpronunciation,grammar,vocabulary.Amongthethreefactors,vocabularyhasaveryimportantroleinyourlanguage-studying.AfamousscholarWilkinssaid”withoutgrammar,verylittlecanbeconveyed,withoutvocabulary,nothingcanbeconveyed.”Heemphas
2、izedthatinmostcases,thevocabularyismoreimportantthangrammar.AnotherfamouslexicologistMcCarthysaid,whenastudentlearnthesecondlanguage,nomatterhowwellthestudentlearnsgrammar,nomatterhowsuccessfullyhemastersthesecondsofaL2,withoutwordstoexpressawiderangeofmeanings,communicat
3、ioninthatlanguagecannothappeninanymanfulway.Fromthesetwoexamplesandofcourseincludemanyothercasesthatarenotmentionedherenow,wecanconcludethatifyoudon’tcarevocabularyatall,itisimpossibletolearnalanguageinsomeway.What’smore,youcannotexpressyourrealfeelingnomatteryouarehappy,
4、sad,fortune,oryouareunlucky,becauseyoudon’tknowwhatwordsyoucansayoryoucanwrite.Today,IwilltellyouwhatIhadlearnedinthisclass.WhatIwillteachyouis“wordformation”,whydoIchoosethistopictotalk?Becauseinmyopinion,ifyouknowthewordformationverywell,youcanrememberandusethenewwordse
5、asily.Absolutely,it’sveryhelpfulforyourlanguagestudying.Don’tyouthinkso?★SummaryEnglishvocabularyhasseveralofWord-formationmethods.Butthethreegreatestwordformationpowersareaffixation,compounding,andconversion.Theothersixkindsofword-formationmethodsincludeblending,clipping
6、,acronymy,back-formation,soundreduplication,andcommunizationofpropernames.★KeywordsMorphemes,classifying,word-formation★ContextBeforetalkingaboutwordformation,maybeweshouldknowthemorphologicalstructureofEnglishwordsfirst.SowhatwewilldiscussnextismorphologicalstructureofEn
7、glishwords.Itincludesmorphemes,morphsandallomorphs,classifyingmorphemes,identifyingmorphemes,morphemesandword-formation.☆morphemesTraditionally,wordsareusuallytreatedasthebasicandminimalunitsofalanguagetomakesentence,whicharecombinationsofwordsaccordingtosyntacticrules.St
8、ructurally,however,awordisnotthesmallestunitbecausemanywordscanbeseparatedintoevensmallermeaning