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WORD FORMATION!!!!

In linguistics, word formation is the creation of a new word. Word formation is sometimes contrasted with semantic change, which is a change in a single word's meaning. The line between word formation and semantic change is sometimes a bit blurry; what one person views as a new use of an old word, another person might view as a new word derived from an old one and identical to it in form; see Conversion (linguistics). Word formation can also be contrasted with the formation of idiomatic expressions, though sometimes words can form from multi-word phrases; see Compound (linguistics) and Incorporation (linguistics).

A similar concept is Derivation.

* Agglutination (the process of forming new words from existing ones by adding affixes to them, like shame + less + ness ? shamelessness)
* Back-formation (removing seeming affixes from existing words, like forming edit from editor)
* Blending (a word formed by joining parts of two or more older words, like smog, which comes from smoke and fog)
o Acronym (a word formed from initial letters of the words in a phrase, like English laser from light amplified by stimulated emission of radiation)
o Clipping (morphology) (taking part of an existing word, like forming ad from advertisement)
* Compound (linguistics) (a word formed by stringing together older words, like earthquake)
o Incorporation (linguistics) (a compound of a verb and an object or particle, like intake)
* Conversion (linguistics) (forming a new word from an existing identical one, like forming the verb green from the existing adjective)
* Loanword (a word borrowed from another language, like cliché, which comes from French)
o Calque (borrowing a word or phrase from another language by literal, word-for-word or root-for-root translation; for example the English phrase to lose face, which is a calque from Chinese)
o Phono-semantic matching (matching a foreign word with a phonetically and semantically similar pre-existent native word/root)
o Semantic loan (the extension of the meaning of a word to include new, foreign meanings)
* Neologism (a completely new word, like quark)
o Onomatopoeia (the creation of words that imitate natural sounds, like the bird name cuckoo)

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