English linguistics

English Linguistics Words and word-formation processes in the English Language 1. Introduction In our daily use of language we often are not aware of word-formation processes which create, invent, produce or form new words in a language. Most of the times we have no problems with understanding these new words (=neologism). Furthermore we know immediately the various forms of that new word and include them all in our vocabulary. Sometimes we even may build them ourselves.…

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