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Tham khảo tài liệu 'word for mation in english_9', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | For more material and information please visit Tai Lieu Du Hoc at www.tailieuduhoc.org Chapter 6 Compounding 207 verbs that already have the same suffix. Hence the combinations -ify-ize and -ate-ize are just as impossible as the recursive combination -ize-ize. Applying the criteria listed in 31 does therefore not conclusively solve the problem of the syntactic or morphological nature of compounding although they may speak slightly in favor a morphological view of compounding. What would be needed to really decide on this issue is a well-defined theory of syntax which makes clear statements about the nature of the mechanisms it employs. Currently there are many syntactic theories on the market whose underlying assumptions concerning the role of morphology in grammar greatly differ which makes it virtually impossible to solve the problem of compounding without reference to a particular theory of grammar. Given the nature of this book as an introduction to word-formation that does not assume prior training in syntactic theory we leave this theoretical issue unresolved. Chapter 7 will take up the question of the syntax-morphology connection again in a more general perspective. 8. Summary In this chapter we have looked at the most productive means to create new words in English compounding. We have seen that there are numerous different patterns of compound formation which can be distinguished on the basis of formal and semantic criteria. Compounds systematically combine words of certain categories they display certain predictable stress patterns and they are interpreted in principled ways. We have also seen that compounds raise a host of theoretical issues many of them still not satisfactorily resolved such as the internal structure of compounds the notion of head the mapping of stress patterns onto semantic and structural interpretations and the boundary between morphology and syntax. Having gained some experience in dealing with theoretical problems emerging from .
