If I’m being completely honest, compounding and slang have always been two of my favorite topics in linguists!  In English grammar, compounding is when new words are composed of two (or more) bases, roots, or stems. In other words, it is when you take free morpheme’s and combine them to make a completely new word. Some example’s of this would be; sunglasses, greenhouse and football. Slang words are usually formed by people throughout the decades. It’s when someone makes up a word of some sort that expresses something, whether it is old or new. Slang words are usually used by the younger age groups. When I think about slang when I was growing up, I feel like people normally uses it because they want to fit in or be cool. I feel like slang words typically spread by word of mouth. I remember growing up hearing all different kinds of phrases being passed around by my older siblings, after a while, I noticed I began to use them. A couple of different slang words would be lowkey, highkey, Hangry, Facebook, couchpotato, homeboy, homegirl, all-ears, ripoff, airhead. The meaning behind these words are, lowkey=to be quiet about it, highkey=the be loud about it, Hangry=to be hungry and angry, Facebook=a type of social media platform, couchpotato=when someone is lazy, Homeboy=a phrase someone uses to refer to a friend, Homegirl=a phrase someone uses to refer to a friend, all-ears=a phrase to imply that you are listening, Ripoff=when something is expensive or extremely overprices and airhead=someone who get easily mad or ticked off. I’m sure we have all used these kinds of words once or twice in our lives, especially as a younger generation. I even notice a lot of kids creating new slang words that I have never heard of before. The English language is truly amazing.

 

 

Works Cited:

https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-compounding-words-1689894

https://www.britannica.com/topic/slang

https://www.mondly.com/blog/2019/11/26/45-popular-slang-words-from-around-the-world-and-their-meanings/

Ladyfinger-Exocentric

[[Ladyfinger]N[Lady]N[finger]V]]N

Meatball-Exocentric

[[Meatball]N[Meat]N[ball]N]]N

Grapefruit- Endocentric

[[Grapefruit]N[Grape]N[fruit]N]]N

Chestnut-Endocentric

[[Chestnut]N[Chest]N[nut]N]]N

Popcorn-Endocentric

[[Popcorn]N[Pop]V[corn]N]]N

1.Verb to Noun

[[x]V ment]N

• Achieve to Achievement
• Argue to Argument
• Judge to Judgement

2.[[X]_N,A sion]_V

• Discuss to Discussion
• Compress to Compression
• Transfuse to Transfusion

3. The new words would be Achievesion, Argusion, Judgesion.

I don’t feel like the resulting words are not well formed at all, they seem a bit odd. They are also not existing words. I think the reason why it does not work out is because [sion] means “the state of” and it just doesn’t make when it comes to the base words, like Achieve, Argue and Judge.

 

From what I understood from last weeks meeting, complex words are made up of two or more morphemes. These types of words can be broken down into much smaller units. Now, simplex words have no affixes and is not part of a compound. It can not be broken down any further than it already is. These words usually can stand alone, while, I believe, complex words cannot. I think that when looking at the words, forbid, forget, forgive, forgo, and forswear, I see that they are all complex words. My reasoning for this is because teach word is able to be broken down further than a simplex word would be able to. For example, the word “forgo” would be broken down into the two words “for-go”. The “go”, would be the affix of the word. So for the other words, the affixes would be, “get”, “bid”, “give”, and “swear”. All of these words are able to stand alone once the word in the beginning is taken away, which would be the word “for”.