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  2. Clipping (morphology) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, clipping, also called truncation or shortening, [1] is word formation by removing some segments of an existing word to create a diminutive word or a clipped compound. Clipping differs from abbreviation , which is based on a shortening of the written, rather than the spoken, form of an existing word or phrase.

  3. List of English back-formations - Wikipedia

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    Back-formations are shortened words created from longer words, thus back-formations may be viewed as a sub-type of clipping. Each back-formation in this list is followed by the original word from which it was back-formed.

  4. Clipped compound - Wikipedia

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    It is a special case of a type of word formation called clipping. Clipped compounds are common in various slang and jargon vocabularies, [1] but they are not specific to those. Examples in English include sci fi, comp sci, lab tech, and surg tech. A clipped compound word is linguistically a type of blend word.

  5. Back-formation - Wikipedia

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    Back-formation is the process or result of creating a new word via morphology, typically by removing or substituting actual or supposed affixes from a lexical item, in a way that expands the number of lexemes associated with the corresponding root word. [1] James Murray coined the term back-formation in 1889. [2]

  6. Word formation - Wikipedia

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    There are processes for forming new dictionary items which are not considered under the umbrella of word formation. [1] One specific example is semantic change, which is a change in a single word's meaning. The boundary between word formation and semantic change can be difficult to define as a new use of an old word can be seen as a new word ...

  7. Morphology - Wikipedia

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    Morphology (biology), the study of the form or shape of an organism or part thereof; Morphology (folkloristics), the structure of narratives such as folk tales; Morphology (linguistics), the study of the structure and content of word forms; Morphology (sociology), the analysis of the typical social form taken by human relations and practices

  8. List of glossing abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    This article lists common abbreviations for grammatical terms that are used in linguistic interlinear glossing of oral languages [nb 1] in English. The list provides conventional glosses as established by standard inventories of glossing abbreviations such as the Leipzig Glossing rules, [2] the most widely known standard. Synonymous glosses are ...

  9. Talk:Clipping (morphology) - Wikipedia

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    5 Clipping in Dutch. 2 comments. Toggle the table of contents. Talk: Clipping (morphology) Add languages. Page contents not supported in other languages. Article;