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Word Formation in English

This article deals with two major groups:
1, words formed as grammatical syntagmas, i.e. combinations of full linguistic signs, and
2, words which are not grammatical syntagmas, i.e. which are composites not made up of full linguistic signs.
To the first group belong Compounding, Prefixation, Suffixation, Derivation by a Zero Morpheme and Backderivation,
to the second […]