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When pre combines with nouns, the second meaning of it comes. They denote the meaning of 'earlier, proceeding, an existed stuff came into being, or an action began previously', like, preadjustment, preshadow, preaction and prepulse and so on.

The third meaning of the prefix is 'cited or occurring in front of a position or region of the part, anterior' when it attaches to the adjectives. And it also has the meaning of 'rank, degree, in the sense of surpassing, in preference to, superior to or beyond. It is can also prefixed to nouns and forming adjectives to express the meaning of 'something exist or happening in advance', like, preadvertisement, precivilization, preconvention and predevelopment etc. Pre can also convey the meaning of 'names of races, nations, religions, names of people' when it combines with 'adjectives which derived from proper nouns', like, presaxon, presemitic and pre-assyrian.

It becomes comparatively easier when we talk about prefix ante. There are roughly two kinds of meaning that ante obtains, those are, 'previous of time or order, anticipatory in position'. Ante can form nouns and adjectives by attaching a base. Both nouns and adjectives all convey the meaning of previous, like, ante-porch, ante-carve, ante-dawn and ante-spring, etc. as nouns; ante-mortal, ante-human, and ante-mortem, etc. as adjectives.

As the other two prefixes, fore also denotes the meaning of 'before, previously'. However, a special point of it is that it expresses the meaning of 'indicating a front of something or animal', like, fore-hall, fore-claw, fore-hoof and fore-knee, etc. as nouns. And the meaning of fore is mainly centered on the concrete material or the early stage, like, fore-day, fore-age, fore-ancestor and fore-glime, etc. as adjectives.

As a whole, the three prefixes all denote the meaning of 'before, in advance' with their characteristic. Pre is quite flexible. It can express different 'previous' meaning with a different base. Ante is mainly forms nouns and adjectives to convey the proper meaning. Fore delivers a concrete meaning via forming into nouns.

The third method that morphological productivity can be constrained is morphological constraints. For the morphological constraints, we mainly refer to the etymology. It is constantly called 'etymological constraints' rather than 'morphological constraints'. The base must have 'certain structure belongs to a certain morphologically or syntactically defined class' (Plag, 2003, p.217). It means that the base have to belong to a certain type of morphological class or special structure. When a base can be or cannot be added to the prefix, the morphological constraints come into play.

Among the three prefixes, fore can be dated from the old English as a prefix to form the meaning of 'in advance'. Prefix ante and pre are both originate from the Latin. Thus, for the prefix fore, it will prefer to attach those bases dated the old English. While prefix pre and ante are always combined those Latin bases to form a new word. Coincidently, the bases attached to those two prefixes are largely originated from Latin. However, this situation is relatively a matter of preference but not absolute. For prefix fore, old English base is more producti本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。