Words formation processes

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They create new lexical material, new words.

Definition of word:

1. It denotes concepts or coherent ideas that turned out to be a little problematic.
2. Words bellong into the a word grasses syntactic and they form the building blocks from phrases and sentences summing.

words formation processes

Ways of creating new words

1. Formed from existing words and parts. 2. Words are borrowed by others languages. 3. New words can be made up by scratch.

Cathegories

Blending

Making one word out of two others. (AB+CD=AD)

Acronymy

Derivation from the initial sounds of several words.

Backformation

Speackers misanalyxze words into base and affix, and then substract the affix using only the base.

Clipping

Shortening a word by deleting phonological material.

Conversion

Use words from one word class as members from another class.

Affixation

Derivational affixes to form new words with prefixes or suffixes.

1.Inflexional affixes: Modify the words in number, sense and time. 2.Multiple affixation: Complex words have more than one affix. 3.Allomorphy: The same Affix has different realizations.

Compounding

Existing words are put together to form a single new word.

Types

1.Endocentric compounds: Battleship 2.Exocentric compounds: Born-again 3.Copulative compounds: Bittersweet