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However, the derived word tells us something about the speaker’s attitude, which is a newmeaning. Treating expletive infixation as
regular wordformation is also in wline with the idea…that diminutives (like doggy) and augmentatives (like super-cool) are instances of
wordformation.
Four types of affixes: An infix is placed within a word; they are rare in English ( -o- narcology -i- calciferous )
22. Combining forms
23. Back-formation
“…a kind of derivation in reverse, in which a supposed affix is removed from a word”. It is the process of forming a
new word (a neologism) by extracting actual or supposed affixes from another word; shortened words created from
longer words. Verb: back-form (itself a back-formation). Backformation is a form of shortening in which the omitted
material is or is perceived to be a formative, typically an affix
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