Word Formation Process

One way we seem to organize our knowledge of words is simply on the basis of ...

New words based on the name of a person or a place.

There is a direct translation of the elements of a word into the borrowing language.

Affixes have to be added to the beginning of the word (e.g. un-, mis-).

This occurs when a word of more than one syllable is reduced to a shorter form.

What a speaker (writer) assumes is true or known by a listener (reader) can be described as a..

The study of forms, describe all those basic “elements” used in a language.

Two forms with opposite meanings

It concerns the ability of linguistics expressions to refer to real world entities.

In this process, a longer word is reduced to a single syllable, -y or -ie is added to the end.

Two or more words with very closely related meanings.

Close connection based on container-contents relation(bottle-water)used to refer to the other.

N, Adj. and V that we think of as the words that carry the “content” of the messages we convey.

Forms that can't stand alone and are typically attached to another form eg. re-,-ist,-ed and -s

The process of describing the structure of phrases and sentences.

The combination of two separate forms to produce a single new term.

Morphemes that can stand by themselves as single words, for example, open and tour.

The co-text of a word is the set of other words used in the same phrase or sentence.

When we encounter two or more words with the same form and related meanings, is known as...

It's the invention of totally new terms.

The study of how language is used in context to express: directness, politeness, and deference.

A minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function. Such as -s, -er, -ed and -ing.

A reciprocal semantic ralationship between pairs of words, as Wife - Husband

Affixes have to be added to the end of the word (e.g. -less, -ish)

New words formed from the initial letters of a set of other words. As CD (“compact disk”).

When two or more different (written) forms have the same pronunciation, they are decribed as...

It's the study of the origin and history of a word.

Indicates the role played by each entity in a sentence and from very specific to very general.

The meaning of one form is included in the meaning of another, the relationship is described as

Used to point to things (it, this, boxes) and people (him, those idiots).

The taking over of words from other languages.

There is a joining of two separate words to produce a single form.

A word of one type (usually a noun) is reduced to form a word of another type (usually a verb).

It's accomplished by means of a large number of small “bits” of the English language. un-, mis-

The structure and ordering of components within a sentence.

The study of the meaning of words, phrases and sentences.

It is an affix that is incorporated inside another word.

A change in the function of a word,when a noun comes to be used as a verb without any reduction

Words that have separate histories & meanings, but have accidentally come to have the same form

It can be defined as subsequent reference to an already introduced entity.