The document discusses 7 types of word formation: coinage, borrowing, backformation, acronyms, derivation, conversion, and clipping. It provides examples for each type, including that coinage involves creating made-up words like "to googgle", borrowing takes words from other languages like "tattoo" from Tahitian, and backformation forms new words by changing parts of existing words like creating "donate" from "donation".
The document discusses 7 types of word formation: coinage, borrowing, backformation, acronyms, derivation, conversion, and clipping. It provides examples for each type, including that coinage involves creating made-up words like "to googgle", borrowing takes words from other languages like "tattoo" from Tahitian, and backformation forms new words by changing parts of existing words like creating "donate" from "donation".
The document discusses 7 types of word formation: coinage, borrowing, backformation, acronyms, derivation, conversion, and clipping. It provides examples for each type, including that coinage involves creating made-up words like "to googgle", borrowing takes words from other languages like "tattoo" from Tahitian, and backformation forms new words by changing parts of existing words like creating "donate" from "donation".