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Spanish Morphology
Nurul Antasha binti Ariffin

2. Morphology
The study of the structures of words and how words are formed.
Morpheme- the smallest meaningful unit of a language, a word or not.

3. Methods Derivation Compounding Reduplication Blending Clipping
Acronyms
Back formation
Extension of word formation rules
Functional shift
Proper name- common name
Coining
Onomatopoeia
Borrowing

4. Derivation a. im + posible(A) ‘possible’ = imposible(A) ‘impossible’
b. pos + Guerra(N) ‘war’ = posguerra(N) ‘postwar’
(2) a. blanco(A) ‘white’ + ura(N) = blancura(N) ‘whiteness’
b. soldar(V) ‘to weld’ + dor(N) = soldador(N) ‘welder’
Affix
Word
New word
Meaning
Im- (Prefix)
posible (A) = Possible
Imposible (A)
Impossible
Pos- (Prefix)
guerra (N) = War
Posguerra (N)
Postwar
-ura (Suffix)
Blanko (A) = White
Blancura (N)
Whiteness
-dor (Suffix)
Saldar (V) = to weld
Soldador (N)
Welder
Add some affixes to the word and sometimes it changes the word form. Example V + Affix = N blablabla

5. Clipping Word Clipping form Meaning Apartado postal Apdo P.O Box
Aproximadamente
Aprox
Aproximately
Gobierno
Gob
Government
Clipping is when some parts of a word is taken out, and a new shortened version of the word is formed. It’s a bit different from acronym coz acronym usually only take the front letter of the word while clipping take just a few letters.

6. Acronyms Word Acronym Meaning Oeste O W (West)
Organización de Naciones Unidas
UNO
UN (United Nations)
Centímetros cúbicos
C.C
Cubic centimeters
Estados Unidos
EE. UU.
United States

7. Onomatopoeia bee abeja bzzz zumbar cat gato miau maullar cow vaca
English Animal
Spanish Animal
Onomatopoeia
Special verb
bee
abeja
bzzz
zumbar
cat
gato
miau
maullar
cow
vaca
mu, muuu
mugir
dog
perro
guau guau, guau
ladrar
donkey
burro
iii-aah
rebuznar
duck
pato
cuac cuac
graznar
frog
rana
cruá cruá, berp, croac
croar
goat
cabra
bee bee
balar

8. Borrowing Spanish English Un líder A leader Un rockero A rocker
El béicon
Bacon
Un cámping
Camp site
Boicoteo
Boycott
Borrowing is when a language borrows certain words from some other language. Based on what I read, Spanish does not borrow that much words from English, mainly, English is borrowing from Spanish. That’s why when u watch dora u hear so many similar words right such as ‘um numnumnumnum delecioso. Excellente ! And so on. Because they borrow from each other a lot.

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