English word-formation: linguistic study

Abstract EN

Generally speaking, word-formation represents all the processes of more phological variation in the constitution of words.

In English language and in many other languages, the most prominent device for forming words is com pounding and derivation, yet the other devices are also available.

It is thought that morphology includes inflection that represents word variations showing grammatical relationships, and derivation that represents word variations de noting lexical relationships.

The study of word formation is known as "deri vational morphology" that is different from "inflectional morphology".

Word-formation is sometimes governed by rules which are called word formation rules.

These rules determine how to form one class of words out of another.

In 1060s, many attempts were made to integrate word formation into syntax, but these attempts were not successful, and most recent studies relate word formation to the lexical rules included within the lexicon.

The study sheds light on word-formation processes which seem to be the most prominent in forming new lexemes and like compounding, neo-classical compounds, prefixation, suffixation, borrowing, conversion, back-formation, Echoism, unpredictable formations including clipping, blends, acronyms, and word manufacture (Coinage), Reduplication and mixed formation.