chapter 4 word formation思维导图

Affixation：generally defined as the formation of words by adding word-forming or devational affixes to bases.

Compounding：the formation of new words by joining 2 or more bases.

Conversion：the formation of new words by converting words of one class to another class

Blending：the formation of new words by combing parts of 2 words or word plus a part of another word and vice versa.

Clipping：another common way of making a word is to shorten or clip a longer word

Acronymy：the process of forming new words by jioning the initial letters of composite names of social and political organizations or phrases uesd as technical terms.

Back-formation：is considered to be the opposite process of suffixation

Sound Reduplication

Commomization of Proper Names