Word-composition. Criteria of composition

Composition-- (30% of English words) - is a very productive word building means in modern English. The aim of this process is to combine two stems to produce one word.

e.x. bedroom; blackboard

Principles (problems) of composition

1. How to differentiate compound words from word combinations.

5 criteria of this distinguish

1) Phonetic – all word-combination bare a primary stress on each of its constitutive parts where is compound word have only one primary stress.

Ex. Laughing boys laughing gas (compound word)

2) Morphological – in compound words the ending is placed at the end of this structure.

Ex. Weekend (s)

3) Syntactical – strict word order;

Ex. Adj + noun = beautiful house

4) Syntactic – in some compound words the meaning of a whole can’t be deduced (исчислять) from the total sum of the meanings of its constitutive parts.

Ex. Ladybird – божья коровка

Type – writer – печатная машинка

5) Graphic

n In one block

n Hyphenated

n Separatel