Reading Log for chapters 6,7 and 8.

Chapter 6, words and words formation process talks about Etymology, which is the study of the origin and history of a word. Also there are many different ways a new word can enter the English language. However coinage is one of the least common processes of word formation in English. For example older words such as aspirin, nylon, vaseline, and zipper. More recent examples include kleenex, teflon,tylenol and exerox. The chapter goes on to discuss about eponyms, words based on the name of a person or a place. For example sandwich/ which Earl Sandwich insisted on haveing his bread and meat together. The word Fahrenheit from the German Gabriel Fahrenheit this is a term based on the names of those who first discovered or invented things. To add to this chapter and the formation process of words borrower, compounding, blending, clipping, backformation, conversion, acronyms,derivation all have a specific impact on new words, joining of two separate words, reduction, verbs and nouns.

Chapter 7, focuses on Morphology which is defined to be the basic forms in language. Futhermore discussing on morphemes, a minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function. There aare free morphemes, morphemes that can stand by themselves as single words , example open and tour. Bound morphemes that cannot normally stand alone Example words that are attached to -re,-ist, -ed, -s, receive, reduce, repeat. However free morphemes are furthered call Lexical morphemes and other type of free morphemes are called Functional morphemes. Examples include, but, when, because, on, near, above in. Bound morphemes which changes the adjectives good to the noun goodness. A list of Derivational morphemes include suffixes such as -ish in foolish, ly in quickly and -ment in payment. The second set of bound morphemes are called inflectional morphemes, used to produce new words in the language. It is also used to show if the word is plural or singular, past tense or not. This chapter also talks about morphs and allomorphs and how morphology works with other languages, furthermore how different forms of language are used to realize morphological processes and features.

Lastly, chapter 8 demonstrates on phrases and sentences: grammar. The process of discribing the structure of phrases and sentences in such a way that we account for all the grammatical sequences in a language and rule out all the ungrammatical sequence is one way of defining grammar. Therefore without knowing the rules to a language it is uncertain to make a well organized sentence. The part of speech helps out with identifying the nouns, articles, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, preposition, pronouns and conjunctions. Furthermore the chapter discusses about grammatical gender, the prescriptive approach, descriptive approach or structural analysis/ immediate constituent analysis.