LIN203 English WordsPetersonWriting Assignment 2English and German are related languages that have different approaches to using borrowed words and coining new words. Compare the following passages...

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LIN203 English WordsPetersonWriting Assignment 2English and German are related languages that have different approaches to using borrowed words and coining new words. Compare the following passages taken from a multilingual transit booklet put out by the city of Konstanz (Germany). The underlinedGermanwords all use the morpheme fahr‘drive, travel’ to form various words having to do with travelling or driving; the cognate English morpheme, fare, is used in only one case in the English translation.Werter Fahrgast! (1) Unsere Busse fahren(2) ohne Schaffner. Lösen Sie bitte Ihren Fahrschein(3) beim Fahrer... (4) Ungestempelte Fahrscheine sind im Fahrzeug(5) ungültig! Wer ohne gültigen Fahrausweis(6) angetroffen wird, ist zur Zahlung eines erhöten Fahrgeldes (7) von DM 50,—verplichtet.Dear Passenger! (1) Our busses have(2) no conductors. Please buy your ticket(3) from the driver... (4) Unstamped tickets are invalid in the vehicle! (5) Passengers found without valid tickets(6) are liable to be charged increased fare(7) of DM 50,—.(1) Fahrgast: Fahr‘travel, drive’ + Gast‘guest’ = ‘travel guest’ = passenger (2)fahren: fahr + en ‘present plural inflection’ = ‘(they) travel’(3)Fahrschein: Fahr + schein‘document’ = ‘travel document’ = ticket(4)Fahrer: Fahr + erderivational suffix ‘one who...’ = ‘one who drives’ = driver (5)Fahrzeug: Fahr + Zeug‘thing used for...’ = “thing used for travelling’ = vehicle(6)Fahrausweis: Fahr + Ausweis‘pass, card’ = ‘travel pass’ = ticket(7)Fahrgeldes: Fahr + Geldes‘money’ = ‘travel money’,i.e. fareDiscuss the way German and English differ in their approaches to word formation by answering the following questions:1.Consider first the seven German words: what word formation processes are involved in making these words? Note that all themorphemes used in these words are native.2.Like its German cognate, the native English word fareonce had a wide range of uses, which are now reflected in PDE only by a few surviving forms like seafarer andfarewell.In the above passage, other Englishwords are used to translate the German words with root fahr. Comment on the words passenger, ticket, driver, and vehicle: are theynative or borrowed? If borrowed, what language(s) do they come from? Use the OED to answer this question.3.Can you account for the above differences between German and English in terms of characteristics of English discussed in the textbook and the first lecture?
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Word Formation Processes in German and English
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WORD FORMATION PROCESSES IN GERMAN AND ENGLISH
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Word Formation Processes in German and English
Two word formation processes can be observed from the formed words. First, there is the use of compounds in forming the words. In compounding, the words have multiple free morphemes within them which when combined form a word derived from the meaning of the different morphemes. For instance, in the words fahrgast which combines free morpheme “fahr” (travel) and “gast “(guest), fahrschein which combines the free morphemes “fahr” and “schein”. Other words formed in this manner include fahrgeldes and fahrausweis. The second word formation process is affixation. For instance, the word Fahrer has the suffix “er” added to it, “er” just like in the English words describes the person who does the lexical morpheme word. Hence, if fahr...
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