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Word Formation in Modern English - Coggle Diagram
Word Formation in Modern English
Productivity in word formation
Highly Productive
Affixation.
Word-composition.
Conversion.
Abbreviation
Less productive
1.Clipping
2.Blending
Word-formation processes
Affixation
Inflection
Derivation
derivational base,
derivational pattern
Derivational affixes
class-changing
usually suffixes
class-maintaining
mainly prefixes
word-composition
endocentric and /exocentric compounds
conversion
shortening
lexical
aphetic form
acronym
graphical
initialism
clipping
apocope (back clipping)
syncope
aphaeresis (fore-clipping)
fore-and-aft clipping
blending
back-formation
onomatopoeia
sound-interchange
stress-interchange
sentence condensation
phrasal word
lexicalization