1. (word formation: follow up)
Lesson 3
(word formation: follow up)

2. Word formation: compounding
Inflection and derivation are two major processes of word formation.
The third important mechanism is compounding, i.e. the combination of two or more free morphemes
Business class, boy-friend, user-friendly, computer-assisted design, work-of- art, sell-by date

3. Translation problems 3 Lack of equivalents for compounds
Buzzword ("Diversity" is the new buzzword in education)
Acchiappaodori, assorbiodori
mangiaumidità
Air freshner
Dehumidifier

4. ‘Asking’ the right source
importance for students of having the ability to select appropriate electronic resources (Chambers 2005 and Chambers & O’Sullivan 2004) :
The concept of literacy now includes not only the knowledge and skills which are traditionally associated with that concept, but also the ability to select, evaluate and use the electronic tools and resources appropriate for the activity which is being undertaken. (Chambers & O’Sullivan 2004: 158)

5. Online dictionaries Online corpora Monolingual: Outlook
Wildcard…
Cambridge
Reverso (
Bilingual: Wordreference …
Online corpora

6. Bilingual dictionaries

7. Monolingual: reverso

9. Continue the quest
Do the same with ‘acchiappaodori’

13. Another resource for translators: Corpora
Corpus = collection of texts assumed to be representative of a given language put together so that it can be used for linguistic analysis.
Usually the assumption is that the language stored in a corpus is naturally-occurring, gathered according to explicit design criteria, with a specific purpose in mind
(Tognini Bonelli 2001)

14. Reference c. Specialised c. monolingual multilingual monolingual
Corpora
Reference c.
monolingual
Specialised c.
multilingual
monolingual
comparable
parallel

15. What can corpora do for you Concordances (KWIC)
JTW

16. Show the keyword in its lexico-grammatical context
Give a feeling about its meaning and prosody
Provide frequency data
Offer opportunity for ‘serendipity’ learning

17. A new ‘quest’: agriturismo
But check results against examples of real language use

18. The British National Corpus (BNC) was originally created by Oxford University press in the 1980s - early 1990s, and it contains 100 million words of text texts from a wide range of genres (e.g. spoken, fiction, magazines, newspapers, and academic).

20. …or use the Web as a corpus

22. Serendipity learning: Agri*

23. agribusiness
Agribusiness and agrifood sector are synonims