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Word Formation

Word Formation. Deny A. Kwary http://www.kwary.net Airlanga University. Types of Word Formation. Compounding Conversion Clipping Blends Backformation Acronyms Onomatopoeia Eponyms. 1. Compounding. Definition: Two or more words joined together to form a new word. Examples:

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Word Formation

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  1. Word Formation Deny A. Kwary http://www.kwary.net Airlanga University

  2. Types of Word Formation • Compounding • Conversion • Clipping • Blends • Backformation • Acronyms • Onomatopoeia • Eponyms

  3. 1. Compounding • Definition: Two or more words joined together to form a new word. • Examples: • Home + work  homework • Pick + pocket  pickpocket

  4. Note: The meaning of a compound is not always the sum of the meanings of its parts. • Coconut oil  oil made from coconuts. • Olive oil  oil made from olives. • Baby oil  • cathouse  • blue-movies  • blue-chip  NOT oil made from babies oil for babies a house where men visit prostitutes

  5. 2. Conversion • Definition: Assigning an already existing word to a new syntactic category. • Examples: butter (N)  to butter the bread permit (V)  an entry permit empty (A)  to empty the litter-bin

  6. 3. Clipping • Definition: Shortening a polysyllabic word by deleting one or more syllables • Examples: • Facsimile  fax • Hamburger  burger • Gasoline  • Advertisement  • Omnibus 

  7. 4. Blends • Definition: Similar to compounds, but parts of the words are deleted. • Examples: • Motor + hotel  Motel • Breakfast + lunch  Brunch • Wireless + Fidelity  Wi-Fi

  8. Is this a blend?

  9. Case Study: Blends or Compunds • ‘Wild-haired revolutionaries like Che Guevara have been replaced by clean-cut metrosexual icons like soccer star David Beckham and musician Ricky Martin.’ (cbsnews.com, 25th November 2003). • ‘No botox for the Retrosexual. No $1,000 haircuts. The retrosexual man eats red meat heartily and at times kills it himself.’ (The Washington Dispatch, 2nd May 2004). • Another recent coinage borne out of the current preoccupation with male stereotyping is the noun and adjective technosexual. (Macmillan Online, January 2005).

  10. 5. Back-formations • Definition: Creative reduction due to incorrect morphological analysis. • Examples: • editor (1649)  edit (1791) • television (1907)  televise (1927)

  11. 6. Acronyms • Definition: Words derived from the initials of several words • Examples: • severe acute respiratory syndrome  SARS • Self-contained underwater breathing apparatus  SCUBA

  12. Other examples of Acronyms: • Radar • FYI • TGIF • a.k.a • Html • www • SWOT • Radio detecting and ranging • For Your Information • Thanks God It’s Friday • also known as • Hypertext mark-up language • World wide web • Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats

  13. 7. Onomatopoeia • Definition: Words created to sound like the thing that they name.

  14. 8. Eponyms • Definition: Words derived from proper names or things. • Examples: • Kodak • Sandwich • Celcius

  15. Complete the process and Identify the type of word formation: 1. Return on Investment  2. information, entertainment  3. modulator, demodulator  4. love, seat  5. International, police  6. A comb  7. delicatessen  8. Capt. Charles Cunningham Boycott  ROI  Infotainment  Modem  Loveseat  Interpol  To comb  Deli  Boycott  acronym blends blends compounding blends conversion clipping eponym

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