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Word Formation Process (Group4)

This document discusses the word formation process in English. It defines word formation as the process of creating new English words through morphological processes like derivation, compounding, and affixation. The document outlines six main word formation processes: 1) acronymy, 2) clipping, 3) blending, 4) borrowing, 5) back-formation, and 6) functional shift. It provides examples for each process type to illustrate how new words are created through shortening, combining, adopting from other languages, removing affixes, and changing word categories without changing form. The key information is that word formation involves applying linguistic rules to existing words to systematically derive new lexical items for a language.

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Word Formation Process (Group4)

This document discusses the word formation process in English. It defines word formation as the process of creating new English words through morphological processes like derivation, compounding, and affixation. The document outlines six main word formation processes: 1) acronymy, 2) clipping, 3) blending, 4) borrowing, 5) back-formation, and 6) functional shift. It provides examples for each process type to illustrate how new words are created through shortening, combining, adopting from other languages, removing affixes, and changing word categories without changing form. The key information is that word formation involves applying linguistic rules to existing words to systematically derive new lexical items for a language.

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WORD

FORMATION
PROCESS
ANGGRAENI DWI NINGRUM (1911040018)
NEVRITA WULANDA (1911040424)

GROUP 4
Definition of word formation process

A new language and term use new words that we can relate to the one of
linguistics branches of the morphological aspect namely word formation process.
The process of word formation in creation of new English words is called
derivation.

Word formation process is a word formation process which is generally known as


a phenomenon that cannot be separated from human life. Composing new words
from existing ones but still based on linguistic rules. The word formation process
is divided into two, namely the formation of productive and unproductive words.
General Morphological Processes Involved in the Formation of New Words :
1. Affixation.
Affixation consists in adding derivational affixes to roots and stems to form new
words. For example, if the suffix -able is added to the word pass, the word passable is
created.
2. Compounding.
Compounding consists in the combination of two or more (usually free) roots to form
a new word. For example, the word blackboard, heartfelt, brother-in-law are
compound words; they are made up of the roots (at the same time words themselves)
black and board, heart and felt, brother, in and law, respectively.
WORD FORMATION PROCESS
HERE IS THE WORD FORMATION PROCESS :

01 Acronymy
02 Clipping
03 Blending

04 Borrowing
05 Back-Formation
06 Functional Shift
Acronym is the process where by a new word is formed from the initial letters of the
constituent words of a phrase or sentence.
Example :
ASAP (As Soon As Possible)
TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language)
USD (United States’ Dollar)

Clipping is the processes whereby new words are formed by shortening other words by
eliminating the initial part, the last part, or both parts. Or short version of a word to make it
easier to pronounce
Example :
Bro – Brother
Dorm – Dormitory
Flu - Influenza
Blending is the process whereby new words are formed by combining parts of two words,
usually the beginning of one word and the end of another. Or formed by taking the first
syllable and combining it with the syllables of the second word
Example :
Breakfast + Lunch = Brunch
Information + Entertainment = Infotainment
Toys + Cartoons = Toytoons

Borrowing is the process whereby new words are formed by adopting words from other
languages ​together with the concepts or ideas they stand.
Example :
cargo, mosquito, vanilla – from spanyol
alcohol, sugar, syrup, zero – from arab
they, knife, window, happy – from swedia
Back-formation is the process by which new words are formed by the deletion of a supposed
affix from an already existing word. Or creates a new lexeme by removing actual or proper
suffixes
Example :
Divvy – Division
Try – Trial
Champ – Champion

Functional shift (conversion or zero derivation) is the process by which new words are
created by using a word in new functions without any change in its form.
Example :
When the word water is used in the follow- ing sentence Give me some water, please it is used
as a noun, which is probably its original (and more common) use. But when water is used in
the sentence The children water the plants every morning, it is used in a new syntactic
function, namely, as a verb, and no change in spelling or pronunciation has been made. In other
words, the grammatical cate- gory of the word water has shifted from noun to verb
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