1. Word Formation
LECTURE 11

2. Types of Word Formation
Compounding
Conversion
Clipping
Blends
Backformation
Acronyms
Onomatopoeia
Eponyms

3. 1. Compounding Home + work  homework Pick + pocket  pickpocket
Definition: Two or more words joined together to form a new word.
Examples:
Home + work  homework
Pick + pocket  pickpocket
Fireman
Hardware

4. 2. Conversion
Definition: Assigning an already existing word to a new syntactic category.
Examples:
butter (N)  to butter the bread
permit (V)  an entry permit
empty (A)  to empty the litter-bin
poor (A)  a poor
This is a must,
belief, believes;
use, to use;

5. 3. Clipping
Definition: Shortening a polysyllabic word by deleting one or more syllables
Examples:
Facsimile  fax
Hamburger  burger
Gasoline 
Advertisement 
bike
Gym
Lab
Plane
prof

6. 4. Blends
Definition: Similar to compounds, but parts of the words are deleted.
Examples:
Motor + hotel  Motel
Breakfast + lunch  Brunch
Wireless + Fidelity  Wi-Fi

7. broccoli + cauliflower  Broccoflower
Broccoflower is an Eating plant of the species Brassica oleracea. The edible portion is the immature flower head of the plant. The word broccoflower is used to describe two different forms with light green heads....
breakfast + lunch  Brunch
Brunch or bruncheon is a combination of breakfast and lunch. The term is a portmanteau of breakfast and lunch. Brunch is often served after a morning event or prior to an afternoon one, such as a wedding or sporting event....

8. camera + recorder  Camcorder
A camcorder is a portable consumer electronics device for recording video and Sound recording using a built-in recorder unit. The camcorder contains both a video camera and a video recorder in one unit, hence its compound name....

9. education + entertainment  Edutainment Edutainment is a form of entertainment designed to Education as well as to amuse. Edutainment typically seeks to instruct or Socialization its audience by embedding lessons in some familiar form of entertainment: television programs, Video game, films, music, websites, multimedia software, etc....

10. information + commercials  Infomercial
Infomercials are long-format television Television advertisement, typically five minutes or longer.. Infomercials are also known as paid programming ....

11. motor + hotel  Motel
the word motel, a portmanteau of motor and hotel or motorists' hotel, referred initially to a type of hotel consisting of a single building of connected rooms whose doors faced a parking lot and, in some circumstances, a common area; or a series of small cabins

12. 5. Back-formations
Definition: word created by removing a morpheme perceived as an affix from an already existing word
Examples:
editor  edit
Television  televise
self-destruction  self-destruct

13. 6. Acronyms
Definition: Words derived from the initials of several words
Examples:
severe acute respiratory syndrome
 SARS
Self-contained underwater breathing apparatus
 SCUBA

14. Other examples of Acronyms:
Radio detecting and ranging
For Your Information
Thanks God It’s Friday
also known as
Hypertext mark-up language
World wide web
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats
Radar
FYI
TGIF
a.k.a
Html
www
SWOT

15. 7. Onomatopoeia Definition:
Words created to sound like the thing that they name.
English
Japanese
Tagalog
Indonesian
Cock-a-doo
Kokekokko
Kuk-kakauk
Kukuruyuk
Meow
Nya
Niyaw
Meong

16. 8. Eponyms Kodak Sandwich Celcius
Definition: Words derived from proper names or things.
Examples:
Kodak
Sandwich
Celcius

17. Complete the process and Identify the type of word formation:
1. Return on Investment  2. information, entertainment  3. modulator, demodulator  4. love, seat  5. International, police  6. A comb  7. Memorandum  8. Capt. Charles Cunningham Boycott  9. Fanatic 
ROI 
Infotainment 
Modem 
Loveseat 
Interpol 
To comb 
Memo 
Boycott 
Fan 
acronym
blends
compounding
conversion
clipping
eponym

18. For each underlined word in each phrase or sentence, identify the morphemes and describe them.
Example: An unfortunate error 3 morphemes: un-fortun-ate fortune : root; free morpheme un-: bound derivational prefix; e.g., 'unfair', 'unpredictable' -ate: bound derivational suffix; e.g., 'passionate', 'literate
An unwritten record
her two ex-husbands
Which scenarios is unlikelier?
the inspector's parking place
we have misidentified the victim