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Word Formation Part 1
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Word formation Both inflectional (or grammatical) e.g. plural suffix, genitive suffix, present or past participle etc. and derivational (or lexical) affixes e.g.un-, mis-, -ness, -ship, -hood are attached to roots. Another kind of word formation is where more than one root is joined together (e.g. baby-sit). This is called compounding. Conversion word formation is when a change of word class occurs without any affixation (e.g. skin, a verb derived from a noun, or input, a noun derived from a verb)
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Word Coinage
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English Word Coinage Compounds Acronyms Back-formations Abbreviations
Eponyms Blends
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1. Compounds Definition: Two or more words joined together to form a new word. Examples: Home + work homework Pick + pocket pickpocket
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Note: The meaning of a compound is not always the sum of the meanings of its parts.
Coconut oil oil made from coconuts. Olive oil oil made from olives. Baby oil oil for babies NOT oil made from babies cathouse a house where men visit prostitutes blue-movies blue-chip go-go
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2. Compounding (1) Compounding (compounds): combine two or more free morphemes to form new words N N N N ADJ N N N N ADJ N V N V fire engine green house jump suit P wall paper blue bird kill joy book case N text book P N after thought out patient
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2. Compounding (2) N ADJ ADJ ADJ P ADJ ADJ ADJ N ADJ ADJ ADJ P ADJ
nation-wide red - hot over ripe sky blue far - fetched in grown pitch black out spoken out standing
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2. Compounding (3) N ADJ V V P V V V V V N V ADJ V P V V V
Spoon-feed white wash out live blow dry Steam-roller dry clean underestinate breakdance
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2. Compounding (4) N N N N N N N N N N N N
dog food box stone age cave man
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