{
    "api": "YAML JSON TOON Database",
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "format": "json",
    "dataset": {
        "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": [
            "You need to classify how a word was formed.",
            "You are teaching or analyzing word structure."
        ],
        "caveats": [
            "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": [
            "parts-of-speech",
            "syntactic-terms",
            "language-families"
        ],
        "category": "Linguistics",
        "category_slug": "linguistics",
        "tags": "linguistics,morphology,words",
        "view_count": 0,
        "entry_count": 14,
        "fields": [
            {
                "section": "data",
                "field": "process",
                "type": "string",
                "example": "Inflection"
            },
            {
                "section": "data",
                "field": "description",
                "type": "string",
                "example": "Changing word form to express grammatical featu…"
            },
            {
                "section": "data",
                "field": "example",
                "type": "string",
                "example": "walk -> walked"
            }
        ]
    },
    "data": [
        {
            "process": "Inflection",
            "description": "Changing word form to express grammatical features.",
            "example": "walk -> walked"
        },
        {
            "process": "Derivation",
            "description": "Creating a new word with a different meaning or category.",
            "example": "teach -> teacher"
        },
        {
            "process": "Compounding",
            "description": "Combining two or more words.",
            "example": "blackboard"
        },
        {
            "process": "Reduplication",
            "description": "Repeating all or part of a word.",
            "example": "goosebumps? no, bye-bye"
        },
        {
            "process": "Clipping",
            "description": "Shortening a word without changing meaning.",
            "example": "advertisement -> ad"
        },
        {
            "process": "Blending",
            "description": "Combining parts of two words.",
            "example": "breakfast + lunch -> brunch"
        },
        {
            "process": "Acronym",
            "description": "Forming a word from initial letters.",
            "example": "NASA"
        },
        {
            "process": "Conversion",
            "description": "Changing a word's category without changing its form (zero derivation).",
            "example": "to google (noun to verb)"
        },
        {
            "process": "Back-Formation",
            "description": "Creating a new word by removing a supposed affix from an existing one.",
            "example": "edit from editor"
        },
        {
            "process": "Suppletion",
            "description": "Using unrelated forms for related grammatical forms.",
            "example": "go -> went"
        },
        {
            "process": "Ablaut (Internal Change)",
            "description": "Changing a vowel inside a word to mark a grammatical difference.",
            "example": "sing -> sang -> sung"
        },
        {
            "process": "Affixation",
            "description": "Adding a prefix or suffix to a base.",
            "example": "re- + write, kind + -ness"
        },
        {
            "process": "Initialism",
            "description": "A word formed from initial letters pronounced one by one.",
            "example": "FBI"
        },
        {
            "process": "Eponym",
            "description": "A word derived from a person's or place's name.",
            "example": "sandwich, from the Earl of Sandwich"
        }
    ]
}