Morphemic Repetition. Extension of Morphemic Valency.

THEORY REVISION

1. What are the ways of foregrounding a morpheme?

2. How can root and affixational morphemes be emphasized?

3. What is the result of extension of a morphemic normative valency?

4. What are occasional words characterized by?

5. What does a morpheme gain in case of repetition?

EXERCISES

I. State the function of the following cases of morphemic repetition:

1. She unchained, unbolted and unlocked the door.

2. It was there again, more clearly than before: the terrible expression of pain in her eyes; unblinking, unaccepting, unbelieving pain.

3. We were sitting in the cheapest of all the cheap restaurants that cheapen that very cheap and noisy street, the Rue des Petits Champs in Paris.

4. Young Blight made a great show of fetching from his desk a long thin manuscript volume with a brown paper cover, and running his finger down the day’s appointments, murmuring: “Mr. Aggs, Mr. Baggs, Mr. Caggs, Mr. Daggs, Mr. Faggs, Mr. Gaggs, Mr. Boffin, Yes, sir quite right. You are a little before your time, sir.”

5. Yound Blight made another great show of changing the volume, taking up a pen, sucking it, dipping it, and running over previous entries before he wrote. As, “Mr. Alley, Mr. Balley, Mr. Calley, Mr. Dalley, Mr. Falley, Mr. Galley, Mr.Halley, Mr. Lalley, Mr. Malley. And Mr. Boffin».

6. New scum, of course, has risen to take the place of the old, but the oldest scum, the thickest scum, and the scummiest scum has come from across the ocean.

7. At the time light rain or storm darked the fortress I watched the coming of dark from the high tower. The fortress with its rocky view showed its temporary darkling life of lanterns.

8. Laughing, crying, cheering, chaffing, singing, David Rossi’s people brought him home in triumph.

9. In a sudden burst of slipping, climbing, jingling, clinking and talking, they arrived at the convent door.

10. The procession then те-formed; the chairmen resumed their stations, and the march was recommenced.

II. Analyse the morphemic structure and the purpose of creating the occasional words in the following examples:

1. The girls could not take off their panama hats because this was not far from the school gates and hatlessness was an offence.

2. David, in his new grown-upness, had already a sort of authority.

3. That fact had all the unbelievableness of the sudden wound.

4. Suddenly he felt a horror of her otherness.

5. Lucy wasn't Willie's luck. Or his unluck either.

6. She was waiting for something to happen or for everything
to un-happen.

7. He didn't seem to think that that was very funny. But he didn't seem to think it was especially unfunny.

8. "You asked him».

"I'm un-asking him," the Boss replied.

9. He looked pretty good for a fifty-four-year-old former college athlete who for years had overindulged and un-derexercized.

10. She was a young and unbeautiful woman.

Лабораторная работа №3 (2 ч.)

Lexical level