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 1 Derivational suffixes with no equivalent:
WARD WARDS Northwards
BOUND inbound/outbound
ED blue-eyed
ATHON swimathon
WISE 1. careerwise, 2. crosswise, clockwise
AHOLIC shopaholic, chocoaholic, workaholic

4. Translation procedures: paraphrase
Northward Blue-eyed Swimathon careerwise, crosswise, Clockwise shopaholic, chocoaholic, workaholic

6. Translation problems 3
Suffixes with no equivalent in certain expressions:
Employer
Lack of equivalents for compounds
Buzzword ("Diversity" is the new buzzword in education)
Acchiappaodori, assorbiodori
mangiaumidità
Air freshner
Dehumidifier

7. Agriturismo * agritourism
Likn ch. 2 -3

8. In which words can you find the prefix AGRI-, then?
Agribusiness
noun [U] /ˈæɡ.riˌbɪz.nɪs/ specialized
the various businesses that are connected with producing, preparing, and selling farm products

9. agribusiness
Agribusiness and agrifood sector are synonims

10. 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)

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

12. Online corpora
The freely searchable 450-million-word Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) is the largest corpus of American English currently available, and the only publicly available corpus of American English to contain a wide array of texts from a number of genres.

13.
(2:05 – 7:10)
What mechanisms of word-formation are mentioned in the video?

15. How can you render bromance in Italian?
Blend explained + definition

16. glamping

17. Glamping

18. Would you opt for a forignising or domesticating translation? Why?
How would you translate it?
Il camping si fa glamour