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word formation

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Also 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.

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academic major
Subclass of
creation
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topic's main category
Category:Word coinage
different from
derivation
is the study of
derivation
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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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