Word formation in englishlexicology plan: 1 What are the different types of word formation?

word formation in englishlexicology

PLAN:

1) What are the different types of word formation?

2) What is coining in word formation?

3) What is clipping in word formation?

What are the different types of word formation?

• There are four main kinds of word formation: prefixes, suffixes, conversion and compounds.
• Word formation process is the way of creating new words by adding affixes and using the existing words. According to 'Grady and Archibald (2016), types of word formation are inflection, derivation, cliticization, suppletion, compounding, conversion, blending, clipping, and acronyms and initialisms.

What is coining in word formation?

• Coinage is the word formation process in which a new word is created either deliberately or accidentally without using the other word formation processes and often from seemingly nothing. As neologism or coinage, we identify the word formation process of inventing entirely new words (neology).
• The definition of coinage is metal money. An example of coinage is pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and silver dollars. ... (uncountable) Coins taken collectively; currency. noun. (countable) Something which has been made or invented, especially a coined word.

Coinage on metal is divided into 2 types: volumetric and flat. In this case, each of them is divided into different subspecies, depending on the technology and texture. Openwork coinage is in particular interest, reminiscent of a delicate soft lace of ornaments.
the act of creating a new word or phrase that other people begin to use. : a word that someone has created. : money in the form of coins

What is clipping in word formation

• In linguistics, clipping, also called truncation or shortening, is word formation by removing some segments of an existing word to create a synonym. Clipping differs from abbreviation, which is based on a shortening of the written, rather than the spoken, form of an existing word or phrase.
• In morphology, clipping is the process of forming a new word by dropping one or more syllables from a polysyllabic word, such as cellphone from cellular phone. ... The term is also known as a clipped form, clipped word, shortening, and truncation