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Morphology is the study of word structure and formation. There are several ways that new words can be formed, including clipping, borrowing, derivation, compounding, blending, acronyms, eponyms, and back formation. Clipping involves shortening a word by removing letters from the beginning, middle, or end. Borrowing is adopting a word directly from another language. Derivation adds affixes like prefixes and suffixes to base words to create new words.

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English Morphology Reviewer

Morphology is the study of word structure and formation. There are several ways that new words can be formed, including clipping, borrowing, derivation, compounding, blending, acronyms, eponyms, and back formation. Clipping involves shortening a word by removing letters from the beginning, middle, or end. Borrowing is adopting a word directly from another language. Derivation adds affixes like prefixes and suffixes to base words to create new words.

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ENGLISH MORPHOLOGY Clipping Borrowing

A morphology is the area of grammar It is the process in which a word is reduced A word formation process in which a word
concerned with the structure of words and with or shortened without changing the meaning from one language is borrowed directly into
relationships between words involving the of the word. another language.
morphemes that compose them. Ex. Haiku (Japanese)
Types of Clipping:
Morpheme Derivation
1. Back Clipping – removing the end portion
 Smallest grammatical unit of language. of a word. A type of word formation process in which
 It may or may not stand alone. 2. Fore Clipping – removing the beginning a derivational affix attaches to the base
 Free Morpheme – can function portion of a word. form of a word to create a new word.
independently as words and can appear 3. Middle Clipping – retaining only the middle
with other words. part of a word.
 Bound Morpheme – appears only parts of Ex. Gym – Gymnasium
words. Most common type is affixes
Blending
(prefixes, infixes, and suffixes).
It is the process in which parts of two or
Word Formation
more words combine to create a new word
Generally, word formation (derived words) whose meaning is often a combination of
is the process or result of forming new words, the original words.
Back Formation
which derived from words or group of words with Ex. Emotion + Icon = Emoticon
the same root. A word formation process in which an
Acronyms
actual or supposed derivational affix
In other words, word formation is defined
A word or name formed as an abbreviation detaches from the base form of a word to
as the ways in which new words are made on the
from the initial components in a phrase or a create a new word.
basis of other words or morphemes.
word, usually in the form of individual Ex. Commentate – Commentator
Types of Word Formation letters.
Ex. NASA – National Aeronautics and Space
Compounding
Administration
It is the process of joining or combining two
Eponyms
or more words to make a longer word.
Ex. A word formation process in which a new
Rain + Coat = Raincoat word is formed from the name of a real
fictitious person.
Ex. America – Amerigo Vespucci

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