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Tema:   Prefix and Suffix.

 

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Cecilia Gil

Lourdes Torres

Rosa Elena Duran

Lelia Colmenares

Maria Eulalia Mosquera

 

INFOGRAFIAS

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Suffixes, Morphology

It has been a much discussed issue among linguists when we should consider a a string of sounds a suffix. I personally don't worry too much about whether a thing should be labeled a suffix or not. What I will discuss below is when a thing in fact is labeled a suffix. I've been particularly influenced in my thinking on this subject by the linguist, Dwight Bolinger. He points out that the notions 'suffix' and 'prefix' are much less well-defined than we would like to think. Given the data on phonosemantics I present in this page, it could be argued that every single vowel and consonant is some kind of prefix or suffix or root (i.e. some kind of morpheme).

http://www.conknet.com/~mmagnus/Affixes.html

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Morphology

Suffixes are the most common, and English uses them.  For example, the past tense of most verbs is a matter of adding -ed to the stem; the present participle is made by adding -ing; the plural of a noun is made by adding -s.

http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/morphology.html

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3 Use
• A knowledge of morphology creates an awareness of meaning at a sub-lexical level. That is, we can deconstruct a word and consider its component parts.

• The stems, roots, prefixes, and suffixes of words can be recognised. This can throw light on etymology (the origins of the word) thus giving us more power to communicate efficiently.

http://www.mantex.co.uk/software/eng-002.htm

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4 Suffixes to Know
Suffixes (word-endings) come at the end of a word. They show whether the word is a verb, noun, adjective, or adverb. Learning these word-endings can help you recognize a noun, adjective, verb, or adverb

http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/reading/suffixes.html

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Suffixes and Parts of Speech

Learning something about how suffixes function in the English language can help you improve general reading comprehension; suffixes help you use context and etymological clues to make educated guesses about the meaning of unfamiliar words. Knowledge of parts of speech can be very useful in graduate and professional school entrance exams -- especially the GRE. This list is not exhaustive. Many important uffixes do not appear here (I will update the list from time to time). In addition, the functions I list do not cover all the possibilities for every suffix. I have tried to include those that are more common and/or more likely (in my experience) to appear on the GRE.

http://www.msu.edu/~defores1/gre/sufx/gre_suffx.htm

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Suffixes of meaning and word class

Here is a list of other commonly used suffixes

http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/eap/2004/u2/suffixes4meaningandclass.htm

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Vocabulary Workshop

Suffixes are groups of letters attached to the ends of roots, words, and word groups. Suffixes serve a grammatical function. A suffix can indicate what part of speech (noun, verb, adjective, adverb) to which the word belongs. Suffixes can also modify and extend meaning. The following suffixes are grouped beneath the grammatical function they perform.

 http://www.southampton.liunet.edu/academic/pau/course/webesl.htm

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Word Formation

L
acking an exact correspondence between its sounds and its written symbols, English spelling can be frustratingly inconsistent and can pose problems for even the best spellers. Although it would be impossible to formulate a set of rules that would cover the spelling of all English words, many spelling difficulties arise in connection with suffixes, and the six basic rules given here for determining spelling changes in a word root when a suffix is added are intended as an aid in learning and understanding the correct spelling of a large number of English words

 http://www.bartleby.com/64/83.html

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9 What is a Prefix?

 A prefix is an affix that is joined before a root or stem .. Generic. A prefix is a kind of

http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAPrefix.htm

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The page of concepts  

http://www.clearwriter.com/glossary.htm

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The Article of the Month.

Transderivational morphology is an NLP term which refers to the way in which the form or structure of a particular word directs our pathways of mental association; and thus influences the meaning and impact which that word has on us. Morphology is an area of linguistics that has to do with patterns and structures within particular words.   

http://www.nlpu.com/Articles/artic27.htm

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Chapter Two : Prefix and Suffix.  

Since English language is built up upon words like roots, prefixes, and suffixes, knowing prefix and suffix can help learners with more vocabularies, Students can guess the meaning of the unknown words which onece they have not heard at all. Students will have more built up vocabulary

http://learning.ricr.ac.th/Efcass/chapter2.htm 

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Rules of Grammar

These prefix-suffixes also transform nouns into adjectives. Prefix and Suffixuo: mtvare (moon)-umtvaro (moonless), mze (sun)-umzeo (sunless, without sun), 

http://webdisk.berkeley.edu/~shorena/adjective.html 

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14 Latin and Greek Word Elements.

English is a living language, and it is growing all the time. One way that new words come into the language is when words are borrowed from other languages. New words are also created when words or word elements, such as roots, prefixes, and suffixes, are combined in new ways. 

 http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0907017.html 

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Preparation for an American University Program.

Vocabulary Workshop. Most words used in the English language today were not originally English. These words were borrowed (taken) from other languages. The majority of English words have Latin or Greek origins. When taking the TOEFL* (Test of English as a Foreign Language), it is helpful to know some of these origins or "roots" of English vocabulary. It may be possible to guess the meaning of an unknown word when one knows the meaning of its root. Knowing prefixes and suffixes can also assist in the process.

http://www.southampton.liunet.edu/academic/pau/course/webesl.htm

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DINÁMICAS ( DINAMIC )

 

DINÁMICAS DE PAREO
 

 
# DINÁMICA DE PAREO

 

 

Columna A

   

Columna B

1 Most languages, but especially agglutinating and inflexional ones, differentiate between the stem of the word, which carries the basic meaning, and various affixes or attachments that carry additional, often grammatical, meanings.  There are several kinds of affixes:

 

  A noun, adjective, verb, or adverb.
2 Suffixes (word-endings) come at the end of a word. They show whether the word is a verb, noun, adjective, or adverb. Learning these word-endings can help you recognize a

 

  B the root, a prefix and a suffix.
3 groups of letters attached to the ends of roots, words, and word groups. Suffixes serve a grammatical function. A suffix can indicate what part of speech (noun, verb, adjective, adverb) to which the word belongs.   C Adding a suffix beginning with a consonant to a word ending in a silent e:
 
4 An English word can consist of three parts:   D Adding a suffix to a word with two or more syllables:
5 Words of one syllable that end in a single consonant preceded by a single vowel double the final consonant before a suffix beginning with a vowel:   E Adding a suffix to a word ending in c:
6 Words of two or more syllables that have the accent on the last syllable and end in a single consonant preceded by a single vowel double the final consonant before a suffix beginning with a vowel: admit, admitted; confer, conferring; control, controller; regret, regrettable.

 

  F Suffixes, Infixes, Ablaut, Prefixes
7 Prefixes and suffixes are called affixes because they are attached to a   G Suffixes are the most common,
8 Words ending with a silent e generally retain the e before a suffix that begins with a consonant: plate, plateful; shoe, shoeless; arrange, arrangement; white, whiteness; awe, awesome; nice, nicety.

 

  H bag, baggage; hop, hopper; hot, hottest; red, redder; run, running; stop, stopped.
9 Words ending in c almost always have the letter k inserted after the c when a suffix beginning with e, i, or y is added: panic, panicky; picnic, picnicker. This is done so that the letter c will not be pronounced like s.   I How do we in fact use the word 'suffix'?
10 .... and English uses them.  For example, the past tense of most verbs is a matter of adding -ed to the stem; the present participle is made by adding -ing; the plural of a noun is made by adding -s.

 

  J Suffixes
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We call something a 'suffix' if it appears after the last root of a word, and if we are conscious of what referent it carries. We call the '-er' in 'player' a suffix, because we know consciously that it refers to 'a person who...'. The longer the string is, the more arbitrary its reference tends to be, and the more language-dependent it tends to be. That is, the strength and energy and reinforcing qualities of the consonant /s/ are quite common in languages all over the word, but the use of 'strangle' to refer to a violent action is much more narrowly limited to English.

 

  K root.

 

Dinámicas Completación:

1.- A prefix is a word element attached to                                   that alters its meaning.

2.- Adding _____________ can also create new words

3.- ___________________________ is an area of linguistics that has to do with patterns and structures within particular words. (This is in contrast to syntax, which defines the patterns and relationships that take place between words.) For example, the difference between the words "happy," "happily," "unhappy," "happiest," "happiness," and "unhappiness," is their morphology, or structure.

4.- Many English words are made up of three parts:_________________, a prefix, and a suffix

5.- Since English language is built up upon words like roots, prefixes, and suffixes, knowing _______________can help learners with more ______________, Students can guess the meaning of the unknown words which onece they have not heard at all. Students will have more built up vocabulary.

6.- A prefix is a particle that is added at the beginning of a word (base) to make a new word. ____________________________________ of the base but not the word class. (Exception: the prefix en-, or em-, which forms verbs). In general prefixes are ___________________ than suffixes since their meaning is more definite

7.-Another prefix often found in English words is ___________________________. It is used both with ___________________.

8.-They are all derived from the same root word, but given different twists through the various ______________________ which have been added to ___________.

9.-The prefix-suffixes u-o, u-ur and u-ul (dissimilation of the u-ur in words with r consonant in the root) indicate the ____________________________. (antonyms of the suffix ian). These prefix-suffixes also transform nouns into adjectives.

10.- Suffix ier indicates ____________________________________. Some examples: ghone (power)-ghonieri (powerfull), goni (sense)-gonieri (intelligent, sensible), ts'esi (order, rule)-ts'esieri (orderly), k'anoni (law, rule)-k'anonieri (legitimate), dzala (strength)-dzlieri (strong).
 

11.-A ______________   is a part of a word. It contains the core meaning of the word, but it cannot stand alone. A prefix is also a ______________________________. It is placed at the beginning of a word to change its meaning.

12.-A suffix is a word part that is placed at the end of a word to change its meaning. Often you can guess the meaning of an unfamiliar word if ___________________________; that is, the root and any prefixes or suffixes that are ______________.

13.- Prefixes and suffixes were originally words themselves but ____________________________________ new words. Prefixes [pre (before) + fix (fasten) = fasten before] are groups of letters placed before words or roots. Prefixes modify or extend the meanings of words and roots.

 

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