Практикум по лексикологии английского языка. Часть 1. Словообразование. Маковецкая Н.А - 39 стр.

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Medicare, denticare, stagflation, bionics, bo(a)tel, brunch, holidate, motel,
plastinaut, rockoon, sexpert, vocumentary, trambulance, Yanknik, travelator.


Exercise 9. Explain the formation of the words in italics. Which of them are
emotionally charged?

1. It is believed that telemedicine could play an important part in reducing hospital
waiting lists. 2. He hurried across the street to the laundromat (C.Hiaasen). 3. One
very small part of Nature, your own eye, is a far more wonderful structure than any
watch. But if some man should stand up and say that this wonderful universe in
which we live came into being by a fortuitous concurrence of atoms which danced
around through the endless ages until they danced into their present form any
would call him a philosopher. In ordinary affairs of life he would be called a
foolosopher (R.Torrey). 4. O Your Grandness! You are fantabulous! (R.Dahl). 5.
Just knock my head seven times on the pillow, and I wake up at seven. Abso-
blooming-lutely certain (J.Lindsay). 6. Nothing in contemporary life carries
meaning for him. He is a deeply relicious person, not simply nostalgic.


Exercise 10. Explain the formation of the following blends.

Brunch, fruice, smog, swellegant, flurry, glaze, animule, dollarture, cablegram,
flish, slash, galumph, chortle, zebrule.

Exercise 11. Comment on the formation of these words:
To baby-sit, to beg, to typewrite, to burgle, to sight-read, to spring-clean, to
pettifog, to strap-hang, to darkle.

                   Revision Exercises on Word-Formation
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Exercise 1. Using the examples below discuss the dynamics of productive word-
formation.

1. “Martha, you can not want roses! What kind of person am I married to? An anti-
rose personality?” (F.Weldon). 2. About us gobblers fork spiced beans down their
gullets (J.Joice). 3. … who was it who wrote the miserable town where the girls
were boisterous and the boys were girlsterous… (O.Nash). 4. Like all your
generations, you’re an anti-romantic (A.Christie). 5. She had felt, as one still felt,
neither free or unfree (M.Spark). 6. For if nobody’s a fool, then neither am I, and
I’m entitled to a non-fool’s Sunday awareness that … our gusto for lurid is awful
(J.D.Salinger). 7. The club which had playing and non-playing classes of
membership… (J.O’Hara). 8. There was a pile of unsecret rubbish left to be burnt
(G.Greene). 9. Flashes and smatterings of all kinds of thoughts and feelings tore