Answer these questions. What is understood by composition? What do we call words made by this type of word-building?
Into what groups and subgroups can compounds be subdivided structurally? Illustrate your answer with examples.
Which types of composition are productive in Modern English?
What are the interrelationships between the meaning of a compound word and the meanings of its constituent parts?
What are the criteria for distinguishing between a compound and a word-combination?
What are the italicized elements in the words given below? What makes them different from affixes? from stems?
statesman, waterproof, cat-like. What are the two processes of making shortenings? Explain the productivity of this way of word-building and stylistic characteristics of shortened words. Give examples.
What minor processes of word-building do you know? Describe them and illustrate your answer with examples.
