Краткий курс лекций по лексикологии английского языка для студентов неязыковых вузов. Москалёва Е.В. - 45 стр.

                  The analysis into immediate constituents describes below
            permits us to obtain the morphemic structure and provides the
            basis for the further word-formation analysis.
                  Word-building is one of the main ways of enriching
            vocabulary. There are four main ways of word-building in modern
            English: affixation, composition, conversion, abbreviation. There
            are also secondary ways of word-building: sound interchange,
            stress interchange, sound imitation, blends, back formation.

                 III. Affixation is one of the most productive ways of word-
            building throughout the history of English. It consists in adding
            an affix to the stem of a definite part of speech. Affixation is
            divided into suffixation and prefixation.
                 The main function of suffixes in Modern English is to form
            one part of speech from another, the secondary function is to
            change the lexical meaning of the same part of speech. (e.g.
            «educate» is a verb, «educatee» is a noun, and «music» is a noun,
            «musicdom» is also a noun).

                    There are different classifications of suffixes:
                    1. Part-of-speecn classification.
                    Suffixes which can form different parts of speech are given
            here:
                  a) noun-forming suffixes, such as: -er (criticizer), -dom
            (officialdom), -ism (ageism);
                  b) adjective-forming suffixes, such as: -able (breathable),
            less (symptomless), -ous (prestigious),
                  c) verb-forming suffixes, such as -ize (computerize), -ify
            (micrify),
                  d) adverb-forming suffixes, such as: -ly (singly), -ward
            (tableward),
                  e) numeral-forming suffixes, such as -teen (sixteen), -ty
            (seventy).

                 2. Semantic classification.
            Suffixes changing the lexical meaning of the stem can be
            subdivided into groups, e.g. noun-forming suffixes can denote:


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