Word Formation Processes Exercises With Answers
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The second process in the more general context of word formation is conversion. In this category we place the processes which convert a word of one class into a word of a different class, by changing the form of the word without changing its underlying meaning. For example, the word mailer is a converted word of the class converter, in that it has lost its original affixing — the affixed word is a noun with the meaning mail, and the new word is a verb. Some other words in this category are transliterate (Latin), cryptograph (Indian), mummify (Latin), mummify (Egyptian), translate (Italian), and cryptograph (Arabic)
Finally, we come to the third of the productive word-formation processes, backformation. Backformation is simply a special case of conversion, in which the word being converted has already been formed, and the backformed word derives from it. By analogy with the word television, we note that backformation converts the word the into the backformed word the-it. (In the more familiar sense of the word backfire, the one about a bomb causing the unintended to go off, the word the-it has the same meaning as the word television, i.e. a device that receives and reproduces images. It is merely a linguistically derived word, not a historically or etymologically derived one.)
Backformation is more common in some languages than in others, and this is reflected in the fact that the word backformation is not a perfectly regular process. It may in fact be a particular kind of 827ec27edc