论述题41.New words can be formed in many ways.Please illustrate borrowing,compounding,blending and back-formation,each with two examples.
【正确答案】(1)Borrowing is a process by which words are borrowed from other languages,e.g. Parliament was borrowed from French,and balcony from Italian; (2)Compounding is a process of combining two or more words into one lexical unit.e.g. Sailboat,four-year-old; (3)Blending is a process of forming a new word by combining parts of other words,e.g. smog(smoke+fog) motel(motor+hotel) (4)Back formation is a process by which new words are formed by taking away the suffix of an existing word,e.g. edit(editor) typewrite(typewriter)