api: YAML JSON TOON Database
version: 1.0.0
format: toon
dataset:
  id: 2855
  slug: morphological-processes
  title: Morphological Processes
  description: Ways in which words are formed and modified.
  summary: "The ways words are formed and changed: inflection, derivation, compounding, reduplication, clipping, blending and acronyms, plus conversion, back-formation, suppletion, ablaut, affixation, initialisms and eponyms."
  use_when[2]: You need to classify how a word was formed.,You are teaching or analyzing word structure.
  caveats[2]: "Some words are formed by more than one process, and categories overlap (an initialism and an acronym differ only in pronunciation).",Examples are drawn from English; other languages use these processes differently or not at all.
  related[3]: parts-of-speech,syntactic-terms,language-families
  entry_count: 14
  fields[3]{section,field,type,example}:
    data,process,string,Inflection
    data,description,string,Changing word form to express grammatical featu…
    data,example,string,walk -> walked
  category: Linguistics
  category_slug: linguistics
  tags: "linguistics,morphology,words"
  view_count: 49
  created_at: 1793403093
  updated_at: 1793403093
data[14]{process,description,example}:
  Inflection,Changing word form to express grammatical features.,walk -> walked
  Derivation,Creating a new word with a different meaning or category.,teach -> teacher
  Compounding,Combining two or more words.,blackboard
  Reduplication,Repeating all or part of a word.,"goosebumps? no, bye-bye"
  Clipping,Shortening a word without changing meaning.,advertisement -> ad
  Blending,Combining parts of two words.,breakfast + lunch -> brunch
  Acronym,Forming a word from initial letters.,NASA
  Conversion,Changing a word's category without changing its form (zero derivation).,to google (noun to verb)
  Back-Formation,Creating a new word by removing a supposed affix from an existing one.,edit from editor
  Suppletion,Using unrelated forms for related grammatical forms.,go -> went
  Ablaut (Internal Change),Changing a vowel inside a word to mark a grammatical difference.,sing -> sang -> sung
  Affixation,Adding a prefix or suffix to a base.,"re- + write, kind + -ness"
  Initialism,A word formed from initial letters pronounced one by one.,FBI
  Eponym,A word derived from a person's or place's name.,"sandwich, from the Earl of Sandwich"