Composition: Types of Compounds
CONTENTS
Topic 1: Composition As a Way of Word-Building
Topic 1: Composition As a Way of Word-Building
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Лекция 4 АЯ в цифровой среде_Словосложение. Типы сложных слов

1. Composition: Types of Compounds

Lecture 4

2. CONTENTS

1. Composition As a Way of Word-Building;
2. Composition: Structural Aspect;
3. Composition: Semantic Aspect;
4. Compound vs Word-Combination.

3. Topic 1: Composition As a Way of Word-Building

Ways of Word-building
affixation
composition / compounding
conversion
shortening
sound imitation
reduplication
back formation

4. Topic 1: Composition As a Way of Word-Building

Ways of Word-building
affixation
composition
conversion
shortening
sound imitation
reduplication
back formation
productive

5.

Topic 1: Composition As a Way of WordBuilding
Composition / Compounding
Way of word-building in which new words
are produced by combining two or more
stems

6.

Topic 1: Composition As a Way of WordBuilding
derived /
derivatives
root words
compounds
English

7.

Topic 2: Composition: Structural Aspect
compounds
neutral
morphological
blackbird
shop-window
sunflower
bedroom
tallboy
syntactic

8.

Topic 2: Composition: Structural Aspect
simple neutral
compounds
coffee table
room mate
bathroom
policeman
cheese cake
keyboard
smartphone
seashore
take-off
backup
derived / derivational
compounds
absent-mindedness
blue-eyed
lady-killer
film-goer
music-lover
newcomer
teenager
babysitter
doubledecker
luncher-out
goose-flesher
Neutral compounds
contracted
compounds
TV-set
V-day
G-man
H-bag
T-shirt

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Topic 2: Composition: Structural Aspect
• Anglo-Saxon
• Franko-Prussian
• handiwork
• handicraft
• craftsmanship
• spokesman
• statesman
Morphological
compounds

10.

Topic 2: Composition: Structural Aspect
• Anglo-Saxon
• Franko-Prussian
• handiwork
• handicraft
• craftsmanship
• spokesman
• statesman
Morphological
compounds

11.

Topic 2: Composition: Structural Aspect
Syntactic compounds
• lily-of-the-valley
• know-nothing
• Jack-of-all-trades
• go-between
• good-for-nothing
• get-together
• mother-in-law
• whodunit
• sit-at-home
• breakfast-in-thebedder
• know-all

12.

Topic 2: Composition: Structural Aspect
Syntactic compounds
• Randy managed to weave through a maze of
oneway-streets, no-left-turns, and no-stoppingzones ...
• "... you go down to the Department of Motor
Vehicles tomorrow and take your behind-thewheel test."
(From A Five-Colour Buick by P. Anderson Wood)

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Topic 2: Composition: Structural Aspect
Syntactic compounds
• Randy managed to weave through a maze of
oneway-streets, no-left-turns, and no-stoppingzones ...
• "... you go down to the Department of Motor
Vehicles tomorrow and take your behind-thewheel test."
(From A Five-Colour Buick by P. Anderson Wood)

14.

Topic 2: Composition: Structural Aspect
Syntactic compounds
• I have decided that you are up to no good. I am well aware that
that is your natural condition. But I prefer you to be up to no
good in London. Which is more used to up-to-no-gooders.
(From The French Lieutenant's Woman by J. Fowles)
• "What if they capture us?" said Mrs. Bucket. "What if they shoot
us?" said Grandma Georgina. "What if my beard were made of
green spinach?" cried Mr. Wonka. "Bunkum and tommyrot! You'll
never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. ...We
want no what-iffers around, right, Charlie?"
(From Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by R. Dahl)

15.

Topic 2: Composition: Structural Aspect
Syntactic compounds
• I have decided that you are up to no good. I am well aware that
that is your natural condition. But I prefer you to be up to no
good in London. Which is more used to up-to-no-gooders.
(From The French Lieutenant's Woman by J. Fowles)
• "What if they capture us?" said Mrs. Bucket. "What if they shoot
us?" said Grandma Georgina. "What if my beard were made of
green spinach?" cried Mr. Wonka. "Bunkum and tommyrot! You'll
never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. ...We
want no what-iffers around, right, Charlie?"
(From Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by R. Dahl)

16.

Topic 3: Composition: Semantic Aspect
meaning of
a
component
meaning
of the
compound
meaning of
a
component

17.

Topic 3: Composition: Semantic Aspect
compounds
nonidiomatic
idiomatic

18.

Topic 3: Composition: Semantic Aspect
1
classroom
bedroom
working-man
evening-gown
dining-room
sleeping-car
reading-room
dancing-hall
2
blackboard
blackbird
football
lady-killer
pick pocket
good-for-nothing
lazybones
chatterbox
3
lady-bird
tall-boy
bluestocking
man-of-war
merry-go-round
mother-of-pearl
horse-marine
butter-fingers
wall-flower
whodunit
straphanger

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Topic 3: Composition: Semantic Aspect
non-idiomatic
classroom
bedroom
working-man
evening-gown
dining-room
sleeping-car
reading-room
dancing-hall
idiomatic
blackboard
blackbird
football
lady-killer
pick pocket
good-for-nothing
lazybones
chatterbox
a white blackbird
pink bluebells
Blackberries are red when
they are green.
idiomatic
lady-bird
tall-boy
bluestocking
man-of-war
merry-go-round
mother-of-pearl
horse-marine
butter-fingers
wall-flower
whodunit
straphanger

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Topic 3: Composition: Semantic Aspect
Patient: They tell me,
doctor, you are a
perfect lady-killer.
Doctor: Oh, no, no! I
assure you, my dear
madam, I make no
distinction between the
sexes.

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Topic 3: Composition: Semantic Aspect
Composition features
not so flexible
expressive and colourful
comparatively laconic

22.

Topic 3: Composition: Semantic Aspect
"Hey," Sally yelled, "could you paint it canary yellow, Fred?"
"Turtle green," shouted my mother, quickly getting into the spirit of
the thing.
"Mouse grey," Randy suggested.
"Dove white, maybe?" my mother asked.
"Rattlesnake brown," my father said with a deadpan look...
"Forget it, all of you," I announced. "My Buick is going to be
peacock blue."
(From A Five-Colour Buick by P. Anderson Wood)

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Topic 4: Compound vs WordCombination
Graphic criterion
a tall boy
spelling
solid
with a
hyphen
separately
a tallboy

24.

Topic 4: Compound vs WordCombination
Semantic criterion
a tall boy
a tall boy
a tallboy
a young
male person
big in size
a piece of
furniture
a tallboy

25.

Topic 4: Compound vs WordCombination
Phonetic criterion
one stress
two stresses
• a tallboy
• a blackboard
• a bluebottle
• the red book
• a tall boy
• a black board
• a blue bottle
• a red book

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Topic 4: Compound vs WordCombination
Morphological and syntactic criteria
a tallboy
• tallboys
a tall boy
• They were the tallest
boys in their form.
• a tall handsome boy

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