A Study on the Interaction Between Morphological and Semantic Features of X-ful Derivatives from the Perspective of Construction Morphology
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.210915.052How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- x-ful derivatives, Morphological features, Semantic features, Construction morphology, Interaction between morphological and semantic features
- Abstract
Suffixes are important components in English word formation. “-FUL” as one of common suffixes, it can produce various derivatives. Based on the American Contemporary English Corpus(COCA), this paper studies the morphological and semantic features of 414 x-ful derivatives. In addition, it adopts the theory of construction morphology to explore the interaction between its morphological and semantic features. The research has three findings. Firstly, the bases of x-ful derivatives may be nouns, adjectives and verbs, from which x-ful nouns and x-ful adjectives can be derived. Secondly, it is found that there are sixteen semantic meanings for x-ful adjectives while only one for x-ful nouns. Thirdly, the bases of x-ful adjectives have four semantic categories while those of x-ful nouns have eight. This research helps English learners understand the semantic schema of x-ful derivatives and correctly grasp internal structural meaning in order to master such vocabulary.
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- © 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Xiaojing Chen AU - Changyong Chen PY - 2021 DA - 2021/09/16 TI - A Study on the Interaction Between Morphological and Semantic Features of X-ful Derivatives from the Perspective of Construction Morphology BT - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Modern Management and Education Research (MMER 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 231 EP - 235 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210915.052 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.210915.052 ID - Chen2021 ER -