Unit 3 The Units of English 教学提示

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1、Unit3TheUnitsofEnglish[Checkyourunderstanding]StatewhethereachofthefollowingstatementsisTrueorFalse.1.AllwordsinEnglishhaveahierarchicalstructure.FNote:Mon-morphemicwordsdonot.2.Clippingisoneofthethreemostimportantdevicesofword-formationinEnglish.FNote:Thethreemostimportantdevicesarea

2、ffixation,compounding(orcomposition)andconversion(orfunctionalshift).3.IdiomsinEnglisharemodifiableinsomegrammaticalways.T4.ThepresenceofconstructionsisuniquetoEnglish.F5.EveryEnglishsentencehasasubject.FNote:Imperativesentencesdonothaveanysubject.■In-ClassActivities1．ASK:(1)Whatisthe

3、infixusedintheabovelanguagedata?“-um-“(2)WhatistheverbforminBontocfor“tobepoor”,giventhatpusimeans“poor”?“pumusi”2.ASK:(1)WhatistheSamoanfor:(a)“theytravel”(b)“hesings”respectively?(a)savavali(b)pese(2)Formulateamorphologicalruleregardinghowtoformthepluralverbformfromthesingularverbfo

4、rminSamoan.Duplicatethepenultimatesyllable.3.ASK:(1)WhichotheraffixesarethereinEnglishthatfunctionasmarkersofnegation?dis-,non-,a-,in-,il-,im-,ir-(2)Whatpatternunderliestheuseofun-inthedataabove?Positivetermscanhavenegativemorphemesaddedtothem,asin“happy-unhappy”,butsemanticallynegati

5、veonesrarelydo,becauseun-isdeprecatoryaswellasnegative.(3)Whyare“ungood”and“unbig”notfoundinEnglish,althoughGeorgeOrwellcoined“ungood”inhisnovelNineteenEighty-Four?DoyouthinktheyareaccidentalgapsinthelexiconofEnglish?Therealreadyexistwordsthatcorrespondto“ungood”and“unbig”.Itisnotacci

6、dental.Thisiswhatistechnicallycalledlexicalblocking.(4)ReadthefollowingextractfromLewisCarroll’sThroughtheLooking-Glass.HowdoyouthinkHumptyDumptywouldexplaintheword“un-birthday”toAlice?“Un-birthday”meanssomedaythatisnotone’sbirthday.(5)Thefactthatun-canbebothaverbprefixandanadjectivep

7、refixmayexplaintheoccurrenceoftheambiguousword“unlockable”.Canyouimaginetwosituationscorrespondingtothetwosensesoftheword??Canyougivemoreexampleslike“unlockable”?Imagineyouareinsidearoomandyouwantsomeprivacy.Youwouldbeunhappytofindthedoorisunlockable–“notabletobelocked.”Nowimagineyoua

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