People who rarely read in bedrooms
CATEGORY OF:
1
ST ELEMENT
2
ND ELEMENT COMPOUND
telephone tag N
N N
software Adj
N N
bozo filter N
N N
2-7. Cyber-
became a popular prefix in the 1990s. It was attached principally to nouns to form new nouns, as in cyberlove, cyberland, cyberspace, and cybercowboy. List ten
words that use the prefix cyber-, identifying any examples of cyber- prefixed to a lexi- cal category other than noun.
2-8.
Draw trees similar to the one in Figure 2–1 on page 45 for these English words: revaccinations
recapitalization unlikelihood
reassuringly disenchantment
unreasonableness unshockability
updated
2-9.
Consider the two analyses of untruthful given below. Give arguments for preferring one analysis over the other.
a.
[[[un[true
Adj
]
Adj
]th
N
]ful
Adj
]
b.
[un[[[true
Adj
]th
N
]ful
Adj
]
Adj
] 2-10.
The following terms are associated with computer or Internet use. For each one, iden- tify the kind of formation compound, shortening, acronym, conversion, and so on
and its lexical category.
Example: chatgroup—
compound, noun client-server
cyberizing FAQ
source code mouse
cyberspace PC
programming language a flame
to flame out IMHO
to download info pike
a lurker to e-mail
code writer Internetter
I-way to lurk
newbee or newbie info superpike
netiquette netter
domain name Mac
a remailer smileys
browser spamming
a sysop a thread
cyberenthusiast a twit filter
WYSIWYG software
to keyboard
2-11. a.
Graduates of the University of California at Los Angeles call their alma mater “U-C-L-A,” but it is sometimes lightly referred to as “youkla” or “ookla.” Which of
these three pronunciations would count as acronyms?
b.
From the list that follows, identify four acronyms and four initialisms: DNA, STD, AIDS, SIDS, NBA, HIV, NHS, NHL, UNESCO, UN, UK, BBC, NATO.
c.
What’s interesting about the words CD-ROM and JPEG?
2-12. a.
As determined by their frequency in a million-word corpus of texts the Brown Cor- pus, the 26 most common words in printed American English are listed below. The
category of a few of these words is already specified. For each of the others, specify its category and then answer the questions that follow. Choose your categories from
this list: N noun, V verb, Adj adjective, Prep preposition, Det determiners, including articles, Pro pronoun.