word formation processes

Question 1

INFLECTION

Answer 1

lexical words can take inflectional suffixes to signal meanings and roles ……… boyS , darkER

Question 2

DERIVATION

Answer 2

adding affixes to create new nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs
Can change the meaning ………..kind = un+kind

Question 3

COMPOUNDING

Answer 3

Complex words which have more than one stem ……..COOK+BOOK

Question 4

CONVERSION

Answer 4

Process that assigns an already exisiting word to a new syntactic category
butter (noun)………… to butter (verb)

Question 5

CLIPPING

Answer 5

shortening words with multiple syllables by removing one or more syllables
does not change meaning of the word …… JEL - JEALOUS

Question 6

BLENDING

Answer 6

joining of two already existing stems to create a new word JEGGING = JEANS+ LEGGINGS

Question 7

BACKFORMATION

Answer 7

formed by removing an affix from a word …… editor— edit

Question 8

ACRONYMS

Answer 8

taking the essential letters of some of the words in a phrase or title ……….UNICEF

Question 9

ONOMATOPOEIA

Answer 9

words that sound like their meaning …….BUZZ/HISS

Question 10

COINAGE AND BRANDING

Answer 10

Coinage: creating new words from scratch ……..hoover
Branding: creating new words from names ….biro

Question 11

BORROWING

Answer 11

taking words from other languages ……. croissant