Processes Of Word Formation

· Compounding
Compounding is simply the joingin of two or more words into a single words, as in hang glider, airstrip, cornflakes, downpour, cutoff, skywarn, alongside, breakfast, long haired, devil may vare, high school. As the foregoing examples show, compound s may be written as one word as a hyphenated word, or as two words. Occasionally it is ard to say wheter or not a word is compound ; compare for instance, despite with in spite of an instead of with in place of. · Derivation
Derivation is forming of new words by combining derivational affixes or bound base with existing words as in disadviese, emplane, deplane, telepathy, ecosystem, coachdom, counshelorship, re ask. Word like these some of which you have never heard before, are often formed in the heat of speaking or writing. You will note that they are immediately understandable because you know the meaning of the parts.

· Invention
Now and then new words are totally invented like Kodak, nylon, dingbat, floosy, goof, quark and blurb.

· Echoism
Echoism is the formation of words whose sound suggest their meaning, like hiss and peewee. The meaning is usually a sound, either natural like the roar of a waterfall or artificial like the clang of a bell. But the meaning may also be the creature that produces the sound like bobwhite. Examples moan. Click, mur-mur, thunder, whisper, lisp, chickadee, bobolink. The vulgar four-letter” words of English are largely echoic words called onomatophoic in literally studies which are frequently in peoetry.

· Cipping
Clipping means that cutting of the beginning or the end of a word or both leaving a part to stand for the whole. The resultant form is called a clipped word. The jargon of the campus is filled with clipped words : lab, dorm, prof, exam, gym, prom, math, psych, mike, and countless other. As thses examples suggest the clipping got the end of a word is the most common and it is mostly nouns that undergo this process. Clipping results in new free forms in the language and sometimes in the creation of new morphemes like prof and mike.