word formation
Sign in to saveAlso known as word-building, wordbuilding, lexeme formation
creation of a new word
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Vinony's link graph records 117 inbound references to word formation, and connects out to blend word, linguistics and word.
It is catalogued under the topic Linguistic morphology.
Vinony links it to 41 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- academic major
- Subclass of
- creation
- Part of
- onomasiology
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- topic's main category
- Category:Word coinage
- different from
- derivation
- is the study of
- derivation
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
In linguistics, word formation is an ambiguous term that can refer to either:
the processes through which words can change (i.e. morphology), or
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “word formation” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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