ASSIGNMENT Nº 3

AFFIXATION PROCESSES IN CORPUS

Taken from: www.ebookee.com/Great-Expectations-Penguin-Classics_30610.html
Written by: Charles Dickens.

Student’s name: Cecilia Molina

Sec:02

4th November 2008

 Example:

sub- less important or lower in rank

sub- + n = n
At any rate, in 1839 Chaves was commissioned as a sublieutenant
in the rural mounted militia. (page 15)

Prefixes

1. under- less of a quality than is desired

under- + adj = adj
I believe they were fat, though I was at that time undersized for
my years, and not strong. (page 5)

2. up- vertical and as straight as possible

up- + n = adv
I was dreadfully frightened, and so giddy that I clung to him with
both hands, and said, ‘If you would kindly please to let me keep
upright, sir, perhaps I shouldn’t be sick, and perhaps I could
attend more.’ ( pages 5, 6)

3. inter- between
inter- + adj = adj
The marshes were just a long black horizontal line then, as I
stopped to look after him; and the river was just another
horizontal line, not nearly so broad nor yet so black; and the sky
was just a row of long angry red lines and dense black lines
intermixed. (page 7)

4. re- again
re- + v = v
‘Hah!’ said Mrs Joe, restoring Tickler to his station. ‘Churchyard,
indeed! ( page 10 )

5. un- not; the opposite of

un- + adj = adj
Joe was evidently made uncomfortable by what he supposed to
 be my loss of appetite, and took a thoughtful bite out of his slice,
which he didn’t seem to enjoy. (page 11)

6. in- not; the opposite of

in- + n = adj
On every rail and gate, wet lay clammy; and the marsh-mist was
so thick, that the wooden finger on the post directing people to
our village – a direction which they never accepted, for they never
came there – was invisible to me until I was quite close under it.
(page 16)

7. dis- not; the opposite of

dis- + adj = adj
This was very disagreeable to a guilty mind. (page 17)

8. im- not; the opposite of

im- + adj = adj
The last I saw of him, his head was bent over his knee and he
was working hard at his fetter, muttering impatient imprecations at
it and at his leg. (page 21)

Example:

-ify to cause an increase in the stated quality; to become.

adv + -ify = v
I recognize the need to simplify my life in many areas to make this
possible.

Suffixes

1. -ian connected with or belonging to

n+ -ian = adj
My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name
Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer
 or more explicit than Pip. (page 3)

2. -ed an action that happened in the past tense

v + -ed = v
So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip. (page 3)

3. -ity referring to a state or a quality

n + -ity = n
I give Pirrip as my father’s family name, on the authority of his
tombstone and my sister – Mrs Joe Gargery, who married the
blacksmith. (page 3)

4. -less without (the thing mentioned)

v+ -less = n
Joe looked at her in a helpless way; then took a helpless bite, and
looked at me again. (page 12)

5. -ly in the stated way

adj + -ly = adv
I am indebted for a belief I religiously entertained that they had all
been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets,
and had never taken them out in this state of existence. (page 3)

6. -ion showing action or condition

v + -ion = n
My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things,
seems to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon
towards evening. (page 3)

7. -ful full of
n + -ful = adj
A fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg. (page
4)

8. -s showing the plurality of the thing mentioned

n + -s = n
‘You young dog,’ said the man, licking his lips, ‘what fat cheeks you
ha’ got.’ (page 4)

9. -able having the quality of

n + -able= adj
 A boy may lock his door, may be warm in bed, may tuck himself up,
may draw the clothes over his head, may think himself comfortable
and safe, but that young man will softly creep and creep his way to
him and tear him open. (page 6)

10. -ing referring to an action that is happening now.

v + -ing = v
‘Much of that!’ said he, glancing about him over the cold wet flat.
(page 6)

11. –ish having the nature of

n + -ish = adj
He was a mild, good-natured, sweet-tempered, easy-going, foolish,
dear fellow – a sort of Hercules in strength, and also in weakness.
(page 8)

12. -ness the quality of

n + -ness = n
My sister, Mrs Joe, with black hair and eyes, had such a prevailing
redness of skin that I sometimes used to wonder whether it was
possible she washed herself with a nutmeg-grater instead of soap.
(page 8)

13. –ious having quality of

n + -ious = adj
For, the fugitive out on the marshes with the ironed leg, the
mysterious young man, the file, the food, and the dreadful pledge I
was under to commit a larceny on those sheltering premises, rose
before me in the avenging coals. (page 10)

14. -ship the group of

n + -ship = n
In our already-mentioned freemasonry as fellow suffers, and in his
good-natured companionship with me, it was our evening habit to
compare the way we bit through our slices, by silently holding them
up to each other’s admiration now and then – which stimulated us to
new exertions. (page 11)
15. -ance The action or state of
v + -ance = n
‘I say, you know!’ muttered Joe, shaking his head at me in a very
serious remonstrance. (page 11)