Word Formation is a process by which new words are formed out of words by various means like of affixation, compounding, clipping, acronym etc. In other words word formation is the creation of a new word (The study of language.)1.
Terminology is always changing, a continuous point out of vitality. In order to understand this process you need to understand the origin of words.
English Linguistics Words and word-formation processes in the English Language 1. Introduction In our daily use of language we often are not aware of word-formation processes which create, invent, produce or form new words in a language. Most of the times we have no problems with understand.
Word-formation in English can be used as a textbook for a course on word-formation (or the word-formation parts of morphology courses), as a source-book for teachers, for student research projects, as a book for self-study by more advanced students (e.g. for their exam preparation), and as an up-to-date reference concerning.
