Zusammenfassung der Ressource
WORD FORMATION PROCESS
- Acronyms
- Initialism is
pronounced as a
word
- HIV- Human
Immunodeficiency
Virus
- AIDS- Acquired
Immunodeficiency
Syndrome
- Are related to word formation
process of abreviation
- Back-formation
- Process which an actual or
supposed derivational affix
detaches from the base form
to create a new word
- Babysitter- Babysit
- Donation- Donate
- Moonlighter-
Moonlight
- Borrowing
- A word in one
language Is borrowed
directly into another
language
- Tamale- Spanish
- Bagel- Yiddish
- Algebra-Arabic
- Derivation
- Is the process which a
derivational affix attaches to
the base form of a word to
create a new word
- Affixes includes
prefixes and suffixes.
- PREFIXES
- En- Cause to be
- Dis- Opposite, negative
- SUFFIXES
- Able- Sense of being
- Ship- Condition, caracter, skill
- Compounding
- Process in which two or more
lexemes combine into a single
word
- Written as
one
- blueberry
- notebook
- Written as two words
joined with a hyphen
- High-risk (in the
phrase high-risk
students)
- on-site (when
its function as
an adjective or
adverb)
- Conversion
- Also called Zero
Derivation
- Creation of
a word form
an existing
word
- Verbification
- Verb from a noun,
adjective, or other word
- Access- To access
- Knife- To knife
- Bottle- To
bottle
- Clipping
- When a word is
reduced or
shortened without
changing the
meaning
- Back
clipping
- Gas from
gasoline
- Complex
clipping
- Sitcom from
situation comedy
- Middle
clipping
- Flu from influenza
- Fore
clipping
- Gator from
alligator
- Blending
- Two or more
words combined
to form a new
word
- The meaning is
often the
combination of the
original words
- Spanish+english=
spanglish
- Prim+sissy=
Prissy
- Motor+hotel=
Motel
- Coinage
- A new word created
deliberately or
accidentally
- Without using the other
word formation processes
and often from seemingly
nothing
- Google
- Escalator
- Aspirin