| Front | Which method of word formation, popular in English since OE, continues to form many of our neologisms in PDE? What other word formation rules are productive today? |
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| Back | Compounding. Words like alcopop and netrepreuner have been created through blending. The nominalisation of phrasal verbs is also popular e.g. 'to black out' becomes 'a blackout', 'to sit down' becomes 'a nice sit down' Also, affixation is popular e.g. un-American, contractee, burglarize, hospitalise Use of acronyms, especially organisation e.g. UN, EU |
Tags: english, present-day
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