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2. English Word-Formation - Wikipedia

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   English Word-Formation is a 1983 book by Laurie Bauer in which the author considers the relationship between word-formation and other areas of linguistics without trying to provide a fully-fledged theory of word-formation. [1] The book has been credited as the "first detailed study of Present-Day English word-formation". [2]

3. Morphology (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   The generation of the English plural dogs from dog is an inflectional rule, and compound phrases and words like dog catcher or dishwasher are examples of word formation. Informally, word formation rules form "new" words (more accurately, new lexemes), and inflection rules yield variant forms of the "same" word (lexeme). The distinction between ...

4. Conversion (word formation) - Wikipedia

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   In English, verbification typically involves simple conversion of a non-verb to a verb. The verbs to verbify and to verb, the first by derivation with an affix and the second by zero derivation, are themselves products of verbification (see autological word), and, as might be guessed, the term to verb is often used more specifically, to refer only to verbification that does not involve a ...

5. Jean Berko Gleason - Wikipedia

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   One of Gleason's hand-drawn panels from the original Wug Test [note 1]. Gleason devised the Wug Test as part of her earliest research (1958), which used nonsense words to gauge children's acquisition of morphological rules‍—‌for example, the "default" rule that most English plurals are formed by adding an /s/, /z/, or /ɪz/ sound depending on the final consonant, e.g. hat–hats, eye ...

6. Word formation - Wikipedia

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   the word televise is a back-formation of television; The process is motivated by analogy: edit is to editor as act is to actor. This process leads to a lot of denominal verbs. The productivity of back-formation is limited, with the most productive forms of back-formation being hypocoristics. [5]

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   Just Words. If you love Scrabble, you'll love the wonderful word game fun of Just Words. Play Just Words free online! By Masque Publishing

8. Morphophonology - Wikipedia

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   (The behaviour of the English past tense ending "-ed" is similar: it can be pronounced /t/, /d/ or /ɪd/, as in hoped, bobbed and added.) The plural suffix "-s" can also influence the form taken by the preceding morpheme, as in the case of the words leaf and knife , which end with [f] in the singular/but have [v] in the plural ( leaves , knives ).

9. English compound - Wikipedia

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   English inherits the ability to form compounds from its parent the Proto-Indo-European language and expands on it. [2] Close to two-thirds of the words in the Old English poem Beowulf are found to be compounds. [3] Of all the types of word-formation in English, compounding is said to be the most productive. [4]