CONTENTS INTRODUCTION........................................................................................................3 I. CHAPTER. Affixation in English ………………………………………………..4 1.1. Classification of affixation ………………………………………………………..4
1.2. Affixation in modern English …………………………………………………….10
II. CHAPTER. The valency and types of affixation …………………………..…22
2.1. The valency of affixes and stems. Word-building patterns and their meaning……22
2.2. Prefixation: classification of prefixes and their productivity …………………….30
2.3. Suffixation: classification of suffixes and their productivity …………………….34
CONCLUSION….........................................................................................................38 Bibliography …………….............................................................................................39 Introduction The theme is stem building affixes in English language . Word – building is one of the main ways of enriching vocabulary. Affixation is one of the most productive ways of word building throughout the history of English. The main function of affixation 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. As we are future teacher must know the rules of word – formation. It will help us to teach our students. Besides if we know affixes we can easily form new words while we are writing or speaking,
The actuality of the course paper is to recognize the importance of word formation that affixation the main types of affixes , classification , valency of affixations .
The aims are what teachers (and learners) want to achieve in a lesson or a course. The goal of the work is based on detailed study of affixation, which play important role in word – formation
.The structure of the course paper consists of introduction, two chapters and conclusion which are followed by the bibliographic list of the literature used in the course of research.
