Chapter 3
Three Major Processes of Word-formation (55 %) 1. Compounding or composition (about 27 %): space craft; job-finding 2. Derivation or affixation (about 17.5 %): ex-wife; greenish 3. Conversion (about 10.5 %): bus (v.); buy (n.),
Eight Minor Processes of Word-formation (26.5 %) 1. Initialisms and acronyms (about 9 %): U.N.; TV; UNESCO 2. Blending (about 6 %): brunch; boatel 3. Clipping (about 2 %): phone; lab 4. Words from proper names (about 2 %): an Uncl Tom; xerox 5. Back formation (about 1 %): gangle (from gangly (a.)); vacuumclean 6. Reduplication (about 0.5 %): walkie-talkie;
go-go 7. Neo-classical formations (about 4 %): psychodelic; neurolinguistic 8. Others (about 3 %): pizzazz; gazump
(borrowing (18.5 %))
Plant structure: