Word stock formation

Outline

3.1 Morphological word formation:

· Affixation (suffixation, prefixation, suffixation-and-prefixation).

· Back formation.

· Abbreviation (aphaeresis, apocopy).

· Compounding (compound-derived words, abbreviated compounds, acronyms, initialisms).

· Blending.

· Compound word vs. a word combination.

Semantic word formation.

· Generalization of meaning.

· Specification of meaning.

· Transposition.

· Conversion.

3.3 Borrowing:

· Borrowings proper.

· Translation loans.

· Semantic loans.

· Barbarisms.