Chapter 6 was about words and word-formation. It described the many ways that languages form words such as coinage, borrowing, compounding, blending, clipping and backformation among others. The word-formation process that interested me the most was the forming of acronyms which are new words that are formed from the initial letters of a set of other words (57). When I read that radar, laser, and scuba, were acronyms I was surprised. I had never known their true origins as words or how they were formed.
Chapter 7 was about morphology and which elements or morphemes are used to form words. Free morphemes are elements that can stand alone whereas bound morphemes need to be attached to another form (63).
Chapter 8 was about grammar and the words used to describe grammatical functions/categories of the words in phrases as well as 'number', 'person', 'tense', 'voice' and 'gender' which need to agree.
"The hidden Signs"
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