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Word formation in English, Examples of major, Types of major formation,…
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Examples of major
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Book+ case, watch+ man,
speedometer-> vowels
down and out -> prep
Auto , Demi, Mono, Multi, Semi, Post
Ness-> clearness, full-> faithfull
Less->faithless,
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Bag- to bag , bottle-to bottle
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Word formation
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is a branch of Lexicology which studies the process of building new words, derivative structures and patterns of existing words.
Facts of word formation
Word-formation research has been carried out from a semasiological perspective,
which has been the dominant one, but also from an onomasiological one (e.g., Štekauer 1998,
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clear boundary, however (Bybee 1985, Scalise 1988, Plank 1994, Booij 2000, Stump 2005;
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low, chain-like sequences of morphemes and morpheme-like elements but as hierarchical
structures which follow the principle of binary branching of immediate constituents (cf., e.g.,
Booij 1977: 32, Lieber 1980: 80, Scalise 1984: 146–151) also prominent in syntactic theoriz-
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