Linguistics curriculum 006-short

1. LINGUISTICS CURRICULUM
LEC-06
PRESENTED BY
A.L. MOHAMMED ALADDIN

2. DERIVATION a large number of small
“bits” of the English
language which are not
usually given separate
listings in dictionaries.
Some familiar examples are the elements un-,
mis-, pre-, -ful, -less, -ish, -ism and -ness which
appear in words like unhappy, misrepresent,
prejudge, joyful, careless, boyish, terrorism and
sadness.
AFFIXES

3. THESE AFFEXIS CAN BE ADDED TO ROOT WORDS
BASE WORDS
• ROOT WORDS BASE WORDS
• ROOT WORDS BASE WORDS
• ROOT BASE WORD
“Cook” is a base
word.

4. un+cook+ed=uncooked
Affix
Affix

5. PREFIXES
• PREFIXES
un+cook+ed=uncooked
Prefix
Affix

6. SUFFIX
• SUFFIXES
un+cook+ed=uncooked
Prefix
Suffix

7. INFIX

8. ANY QUESTIONS?
THANK YOU
• REFERENCE: INTRODUCE PREFIXES SUFFIXES ROOTS AFFIXES
POWER POINT, DAPHNA DORON, ENGLISH TEACHER AT
STELLA & DOT
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