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by Ximena Quishpe 6 years ago

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Word Formation Processes

New words can be created through various linguistic methods. Compounding involves combining two existing words to form a new term, like "Facebook." Affixation adds prefixes or suffixes to a base word, seen in "

Word Formation Processes

Ways of creating new words

INITIALISM

PC - Sequence

CONVERSION

Adjective - Verb

AFFIXATION

Miss - missunderstand

COMPOUNDING

Facebook - face + book

BLENDING

Kidult - kid + adult

ACRONYMY

NASA

BACK-FORMATION

Television - televise

CLIPPING

Application - App.

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