WORD – BUILDING CONSTRUCTION METHODS IN ENGLISH VOCABULARY
Abstract
This article is about methods of word-building constructions of English vocabulary and compared with other language constructions. The author investigates that affixation is the formation of words with the help of derivational affixes. Affixation is subdivided into prefixation and suffixation. Ex. if a prefix «dis» is added to the stem «like» (dislike) or the suffix «full» to «law» (lawful) we say a word is built by affixation. Affixation is one of the most productive ways of word-building throughout the history of English. He affirms also, 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 teachers 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. Morphemes, free and bound forms. If we describe a word as an autonomous unit of language in which a particular meaning is associated with a particular sound complex and which is capable of particular grammatical employment and able to form a sentence by itself we have the possibility to distinguish it from the other fundamental language unit, namely, the morpheme