10. Léxico. Características de la formación de palabras en inglés. Prefijación, sufijación y composición.

10. LEXICON. WORD FORMATION. PREFIXATION, SUFFIXATION AND COMPOUNDING

ESSENTIAL INFORMATION TO DEVELOP

• Lexicology vs lexicography
• Morphology: Study of word formation.
• Morpheme: Minimal unit of grammatical analysis.
• Allomorph: Variations of a morpheme.
• Types of Morphemes: Free (can stand alone) and bound (must be attached to another morpheme).
• Word Classes: Lexical (open class) and function (closed class) words.
• Parts of the Word: Root, stem, base, and compound lexeme.

MAIN METHODS OF WORD FORMATION

• Affixation: Inflection and Derivation
• Compounding

MINOR PROCESSES OF WORD FORMATION

• Conversion
• Clipping
• Back-formation
• Blends
• Acronyms
• Eponyms
• Reduplicatives

KEY CONCEPTS / TERMS 

• Lexicology
• Lexicography
• Morpheme
• Affixation
• Compounding
• Conversion: W
• Clipping:
• Back-formation
• Blends
• Acronyms
• Eponyms
• Reduplicatives

ESSENTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Quirk, R., & Greenbaum, S. (1973). A University Grammar of English.
2. Crystal, D. (2005). How Language Works.
3. Bauer, L. (1983). English Word-Formation.
4. Schmitt, N. (2000). Vocabulary in Language Teaching.
5. Read, J. (2000). Assessing Vocabulary.

Recuerda que tienes dos libros imprescindibles para preparar la oposición de secundaria de inglés, específicos para la parte del desarrollo del tema (La receta del tema perfecto) y la del ejercicio práctico (1,2,3 ¡Practica otra vez! ).