WORD-FORMATION

PROCESSES
COINAGE
It is the invention of totally new
words, for example words which
are invented to be used as trade
names for commercial products.
BORROWING
It is the taking over of words
from other languages.
Pretzel
(German)
COMPOUNDING
It is the joining of two separate
words to produce a single form.
Book + Case
Bookcase
Finger + Print
Fingerprint
BLENDING
It is accomplished by taking
only the beginning of one word
and joining it to the end of
another Word.
Smoke + Fog
Smog
Spanish + English
Spanglish
Sofa
(Arabic) Croissant
(French)
WORD-FORMATION
PROCESSES
CLIPPING
It is the reduction of a Word
with more than one syllable to
a shorter one.
ACRONYMS
It is the formation of new words
using the initial letters of a set
of words.
BACKFORMATION
It is the reduction of a word
(usually a noun)to another type
(usually a verb).
Television
Televise
Donation Donate
CONVERSION
It is the change in the function
of a word.
Facsimile Fax
Gasoline Gas
Bottle
We bottled the home-brew last night.
Chair
Someone has to chair the meeting
compact
disc
CD
video
cassette
recorder
VCR
WORD-FORMATION
PROCESSES
DERIVATION
It is the formation of words
with small bits described as
affixes.
INFIXES
These are the affixes which
have to be added inside a word,
it's not normally used in English.
SUFFIXES
These are the affixes which have
to be added at the end of the
Word.
PREFIXES
These are the affixes which
have to be added at the
beginning of the word.
Happy
Un-happy
Terror Terror-ism
Care
Care-less
Lead
Mis-lead
Fair Un-fair
Stable
Un-stable
Fool
Fool-ish-ness
Kind Kind-ness
Dark
Dark-ness
Hallebloodylujah!
Absogoddamlutely!
Unfuckinbelievable!
Word-
formation
processes
Coinage
Borrowing
Blending
Compounding
(Calque
(loan
translation)
It is the invention of trade
names for commercial
products

It is the taking over
of words from
other languages.
Direct translation of
the elements of a
word into the
borrowing language
superman
perros calientes
boyfriend
It is the joining of two separate
words to produce a single form
Book,
case bookcase
Finger,
print
fingerprint
It is accomplished by
taking only the
beginning of one
word and joining to
the end of the other
word.
Smoke,
fog
breakfast,
lunch
smoke
brunch
Spanish,
English
Spanglish