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ZEEB ROAD, ANN ARBOR, Ml 48106 18 BEDFORD ROW, LONDON WC1R 4EJ, ENGLAND 8118546 Lederer, Ric h a r d H en ry ENGLISH WORD-MAKING University o f New Hampshire P h D . University Microfilms International300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 Copyright 1980 hy Lederer, Richard Henry All Rights Reserved \ PLEASE NOTE: In all cases this material has been filmed in the best possible way from the available copy. Problems encountered with this document have been identified here with a check mark V . 1. Glossy photographs or pages ______ 2. Colored illustrations, paper or print ______ 3. Photographs with dark background ■ 4. Illustrations are poor copy______ 5. Pages with black marks, not origi nal copy _______ 6. Print shows through sis there is text on both sid es of pag e______ 7. Indistinct, broken or small print on several p a g e s ______ 8. Print exceeds margin requirements______ 9. Tightly bound copy with print lost in spine_______ 10. 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Diller, Professor of English l r / 'l j ' Jane Hansen, Assistant Professor of Education n j) . L u • *— John C. Rouman, Associate Professor of Classics IV , Date TABLE OF CONTENTS THE USES OF MORPHOLOGY IN THE SECONDARY CLASSROOM: A RATIONALE CHAPTER 1 SOME WORDS ABOUT WORDS................................. EXERCISES...................... .................... NOTES AND ANSWERS.................................... CHAPTER 2 COMPOUNDS............................................. EXERCISES........................................... NOTES AND ANSWERS.................................... CHAPTER 3 REDUPLICATIONS........................................ EXERCISES........................................... NOTES AND EXERCISES.................................. CHAPTER 4 DERIVATION........................ <........................................ 97 exercises.................................................!!.!!!!!!!!*.!!!!!'.!!!!*. I * l o i PREFIXES................................................................ 102 EXERCISES............... ................................................ 108 ROOTS................................................................... 109 EXERCISES...........................................................,...118 SUFFIXES................................................................ 121 EXERCISES............................................................... 130 INFLECTIONAL . AFFIXES................................................... 132 EXERCISES............................................................... 134 NOTES AND ANSWERS............................................... 136 CHAPTER 5 FUNCTION SHIFT............................................................ 161 EXERCISES........... 166 NOTES AND ANSWERS....................................................... 170 CHAPTER 6 CLIPPING .............................................................. exercises................................................................. !!!.!!!!!!!! 182 NOTES AND ANSWERS....................................................... 184 TABLE OF CONTENTS (continued) CHAPTER 7 BACK FORMATIONS................................................. 191 EXERCISES..................................................... 193 NOTES AND ANSWERS ...................................... :..195 CHAPTER 8 ACRONYMS....................................................... 199 EXERCISES..................................................... 202 NOTES AND ANSWERS....................................... 204 CHAPTER 9 BLENDS......................................................... 209 EXERCISES..................................................... 212 NOTES AND ANSWERS ........................................... 214 CHAPTER 10 EPONYMS....... 221 EXERCISES..................................................... 230 NOTES AND ANSWERS............. 233 APPENDICES ORTHOGRAPHE MIRA3ILE........ ;........................ ;................. 239 ST. PAUL.'S SCHOOL SLANGUAGE............................................. 247 BIBLIOGRAPHY 261 ABSTRACT ENGLISH WORD-KAKINC- fcy RICHARD LEDERER University of New Hampshirer December, 1980 English. Word-Making presents the content and methods of modern research in morphology in the form of a textbook for secondary school English students,, The opening section offers a rationale for the uses of morpho­ logy at the secondary level„ The emergence of English as a sub­ ject in the curriculum is traced historically; and the study of morphology is related specifically to humanistic goals and to the enhancing of skills in language analysis, speaking, reading, vo­ cabulary growth, grammar and usage study, spelling, composition, and literary interpretation,, The main body of the text consists of ten chapters, each ex­ ploring, diachronically and synchronically, a primary category of English word-formation: compounding, reduplication, derivation, conversion, clipping, back formation, acronyming, blending, and eponymingo Each chapter includes exercises that require students to apply what they have learned about the English language0 At the end of each chapter are extensive Notes that reinforce and expand the concepts presented in the main text0 Appendix 1 is an exposition of English spelling through a cata­ loguing of various phoneme-grapheme correspondences» Appendix 2 is an attempt to apply to the slang lexicon of St., Paul's School (vintage 1978) the principals of morphological analysis that are treated throughout the manuscript0 THE USES OF MORPHOLOGY IN THE SECONDARY CLASSROOM: A RATIONALE The history and present state of language teaching in the high school English classroom provides a classic study in lip service. Enlightened teachers almost everywhere admit, indeed proclaim, that language is the most important hallmark of our humanness; that the study of language, pure or applied, can vitalize the English classroom, both for the teacher and the taught; and that it can pull a scattered curriculum together. Most English teachers accept as a curricular model, the tripod,