Evaluate and Describe Herman Miller’s Strategy. Is There Evidence That It Has Produced a Competitive Advantage and Good Financial Performance
Assignment no 1
LIN2602
Unique no 224185
(1) Inflection | Example | Derivation | Example | It creates new words forms of the lexeme. | language→lan-guages. | It creates new lexemes with a completely new meaning. | Educate+ -ion→educa-tion. | It never changes the part of speech of a word. | language=noun languages=noun | It sometimes changes the part of speech of word | Educate=verbEducation= noun | It affixes tend to have a regular meaning. | The –s indicates the plural form. | It affixes are less regular in meaning | -ion can be used to convert a verb to a noun(e.g. act→action) or can create a new word that signifies a state(e.g. pigment → pig-mentation) |
(2)
(a) Conversion= The process of turning a word from a part of speech without adding any derivational suffixes, e.g. noun become a verb or verb become adjectives
Examples
* A soccer player can kick the ball Kick is a noun but become a verb
(b) Clipping= A process of word formation where a shortened form of the word is added to the language or replace the original longer word.
Examples
* Newspaper become news * Cardboard become board
(c) Blending= Involves taking part of word (not necessarily meaningful morphemes) and combining them to form a new words.
Example
* Psychic+ Psychiatric * Physic=physiotherapy
(d) Acronyms= Are words formed by taking the letter of a longer phrase.
Example
* ANC is African national congress * TV is Television
(3) * Change from above it involves linguistic changes that introduced from higher social class and spread into the speech of those with lower socioeconomic status. * Originated in New York City. * Because he investigated the variable occurrence of (r) in the speech of New Yorkers. (only study guide LIN2602,65-71)
(4)
(a) Code Switching * It refers to the use of two or more languages in the same conversation, usually
LIN2602
Unique no 224185
(1) Inflection | Example | Derivation | Example | It creates new words forms of the lexeme. | language→lan-guages. | It creates new lexemes with a completely new meaning. | Educate+ -ion→educa-tion. | It never changes the part of speech of a word. | language=noun languages=noun | It sometimes changes the part of speech of word | Educate=verbEducation= noun | It affixes tend to have a regular meaning. | The –s indicates the plural form. | It affixes are less regular in meaning | -ion can be used to convert a verb to a noun(e.g. act→action) or can create a new word that signifies a state(e.g. pigment → pig-mentation) |
(2)
(a) Conversion= The process of turning a word from a part of speech without adding any derivational suffixes, e.g. noun become a verb or verb become adjectives
Examples
* A soccer player can kick the ball Kick is a noun but become a verb
(b) Clipping= A process of word formation where a shortened form of the word is added to the language or replace the original longer word.
Examples
* Newspaper become news * Cardboard become board
(c) Blending= Involves taking part of word (not necessarily meaningful morphemes) and combining them to form a new words.
Example
* Psychic+ Psychiatric * Physic=physiotherapy
(d) Acronyms= Are words formed by taking the letter of a longer phrase.
Example
* ANC is African national congress * TV is Television
(3) * Change from above it involves linguistic changes that introduced from higher social class and spread into the speech of those with lower socioeconomic status. * Originated in New York City. * Because he investigated the variable occurrence of (r) in the speech of New Yorkers. (only study guide LIN2602,65-71)
(4)
(a) Code Switching * It refers to the use of two or more languages in the same conversation, usually