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English back formation in the 20th and the early 21st centuries

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Stašková N.
Linguistica Pragensia
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2012
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vol. 22
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issue 2
98-122
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The subject of the present study is a description and analysis of English back-formation in the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century. Investigation of an overall sample of 768 back-formed items has resulted in the following findings: Productivity of back-formation remains on the same level as it was in the first half of the 20th century. The most productive process is formation of verbs from action nouns. Back-formation of verbs from agent nouns has decreased, formation of verbs from adjectives almost disappeared. Adjectives can be seen as a minor source of back-formed nouns. There is a growth in involvement of compounds in this process. The most frequent subtracted suffixes are -ing, -ion/-ation and -er, all of them being involved in the formation of verbs. Stylistically unmarked items prevail, but they are often limited in use. Prefix back-formations continue to be formed. Inflectional back-formations seem to be on the decline. The class of adjectives back-formed from agent nouns is a new type that might continue in occurrence. From the analysis of the material investigated, the following main conclusion has been made: Back-formation can be considered a transparent, analysable and productive word-formation process, which has an indisputable potential for generating new words in the future.
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Morfonologia tematu rumuńskich derywatów paradygmatycznych. Alternacje i ich funkcje

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Cychnerski T.
Slavia Meridionalis
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2018
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vol. 18
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Stem morphophonology in Romanian paradigmatic derivatives: alternations and their functions Paradigmatic derivation is one of the basic word formation processes in Romanian. The aim of this paper is a characterization of its formal exponents. The work is founded on a previously realized analysis of the derivational stem in several thousands of cases of conversion and back-formation. In the analyzed stems there is mostly no morphophonological change. Alternations only occur in a particular class of feminine substantives and in some back derivatives. Those are the alternations which take place in the whole morphophonological system. Nearly each of them may be treated as constituents of compound paradigm-alternation formatives. Morfonologia tematu rumuńskich derywatów paradygmatycznych. Alternacje i ich funkcjeCelem niniejszego artykułu jest charakterystyka formalnych wykładników derywacji paradygmatycznej w języku rumuńskim, która jest dlań jednym z podstawowych procesów słowotwórczych. Praca oparta jest na wcześniej dokonanej analizie tematu słowotwórczego w kilku tysiącach przypadków konwersji i derywacji wstecznej. W temacie tym przeważnie nie dochodzi do zmian morfonologicznych. Alternacje mają miejsce tylko w określonej grupie rzeczowników żeńskich i w niektórych derywatach wstecznych. Są to alternacje wykorzystywane w całym systemie morfonologicznym. Prawie wszystkie mogą być interpretowane jako składniki złożonych formantów paradygmatyczno-alternacyjnych.
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