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In linguistics, word formation is an ambiguous term that can refer to either: the processes through which words can change (i.e. morphology), or the creation...

null derivation, is a kind of word formation involving the creation of a word (of a new part of speech) from an existing word (of a different part of speech)...

The Word Formation is a geologic formation in Texas. It preserves fossils dating back to the Permian period. It is probably named for the Old Word Ranch...

words like dog catcher or dishwasher are examples of word formation. Informally, word formation rules form "new" words (more accurately, new lexemes)...

In linguistics, a nonce word—also called an occasionalism—is any word (lexeme), or any sequence of sounds or letters, created for a single occasion or...

stems of the original words. The 1973 Introduction to Modern English Word-Formation explains that "In words such as motel, boatel and Lorry-Tel, hotel is...

well as Thai and Lao, which are abugidas. Morphology is the study of word formation and structure. Words may undergo different morphological processes which...

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...

The longest word in any given language depends on the word formation rules of each specific language, and on the types of words allowed for consideration...

process of word formation. In this process a word starts being used as another word (having some similar properties). In this process a word of some grammatical...

studies into language change and word formation, in fact, identify the process of a "neological continuum": a nonce word is any single-use term that may...

Word games are spoken, board, card or video games often designed to test ability with language or to explore its properties. Word games are generally...

found more often in word formation not only from proper names. Agglutination Collocation Inflection Nominalization Word formation Word root Crystal, David...

readily obvious that the English word set is related to the word sit (the former is originally a causative formation of the latter). It is even less obvious...

of the word becomes less clear, and the word becomes hard to understand and will work like a riddle even for native speakers. The English word best known...

allows the construction of words by adding many suffixes to a word stem. The longest word in the Turkish language used in a text is...

using a word with a different grammatical role, for example using a noun as a verb or a verb as a noun. Another productive word-formation process is...

type of argot in the French language, featuring inversion of syllables in a word, and is common in slang and youth language. It rests on a long French tradition...

certain word relates to other words in a larger phrase, or derivational, changing either the part of speech or the actual meaning of a word. Most roots...

A sentence word (also called a one-word sentence) is a single word that forms a full sentence. Henry Sweet described sentence words as 'an area under...