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	c. Affixes. 8. Word Formation. The American Heritage Book of English Usage. 1996
		Words of two or more syllables that have the accent on the last syllable and end in a single consonant preceded by a single vowel double the final consonant before a suffix beginning with a vowel: admit, admitted; confer, conferring; control, controller; regret, regrettable.
		Words ending with a silent e generally retain the e before a suffix that begins with a consonant: plate, plateful; shoe, shoeless; arrange, arrangement; white, whiteness; awe, awesome; nice, nicety.
		Words ending in c almost always have the letter k inserted after the c when a suffix beginning with e, i, or y is added: panic, panicky; picnic, picnicker.
	www.bartleby.com /64/83.html (910 words)

	Wordorigins.org: Methods of Word Formation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In initialisms and acronyms, the initial portions of the words or syllables of a phrase are used to form a word.
		This method of word formation is unknown in earlier periods.
		A blend or portmanteau word is the result from a specific type of compounding, one where several words are fused into one.
	www.wordorigins.org /Topics/methods.html (1205 words)

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		the '-essor' of 'professor' is not a suffix or word; nor is the '-ther' of 'brother'.
		Words such as 'life', 'shelf', 'leaf' have a final /f/ in most forms, but when they are pluralized, the base has a final /v/: 'lives', 'shelves', 'leaves'.
		Notice that not all words that end in /f/ undergo this change: the plural of the noun 'proof' is not 'prooves'.
	cla.calpoly.edu /~jrubba/morph/morph.over.html (2159 words)

	a. Plurals, Possessives, Affixes, and Compounds. 8. Word Formation. The American Heritage Book of English Usage. 1996
		Compound words, written with or without a hyphen, that consist of a noun followed by an adjective or other qualifying expression form their plurals by making the same change in the noun that is made when the noun stands alone: attorney-general, attorneys-general; daughter-in-law, daughters-in-law; man-of-war, men-of-war; heir apparent, heirs apparent; notary public, notaries public.
		Some words that follow this pattern, such as antelope, cod, crab, elk, fish, flounder, grouse, herring, quail, reindeer, salmon, shrimp, and trout, also have regular plurals ending in -s: antelope, antelopes; fish, fishes; salmon, salmons.
		The plural of a word being used as a word is indicated by -’s: underline all the but’s.
	www.bartleby.com /64/81.html (1162 words)

	Iltârer Word Formation
		Word formation in Iltârer follows a general pattern of combining roots (which may be compounded) with affixes.
		There are also two cases of word formation by changes within the root itself, redupiclation of the initial syllable and nasalization of the initial consonant.
		It is often possible to date the formation of a word by whether or not sound change has occurred at the root/affix junction.
	www.telp.com /ilt_wordform.htm (692 words)

	LESSON 5-1
		All languages have words, and words are probably the most accessible linguistic units.
		Morphology is the study of word formation; it seeks to determine:
		Another way of categorizing morphemes is by considering whether they can stand on their own (i.e., be a word by themselves), or they always have to be attached to another morpheme.
	www.hamline.edu /personal/ferku/linguisticsfall2002/5wordformation.htm (807 words)

	LING 270 - Word Formation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		For example, "book" and "books" are both words, so we write each as a string of letters (graphemes to be precise) separated by a space.
		The basic language system that a child must discover or acquired is that words can be broken down into morphemes and that we can form words by combining morphemes.
		Another aspect of language that a child discovers early is that we can create words from another words through the process of compounding, abbreviating (to produce acronyms), clipping, blending, coining, and conversion.
	www.ohiou.edu /~linguist/L550ex/wfrmnote.htm (639 words)

	Word Formation
		The basic part of any word is the root; to it, you can add a prefix at the beginning and/or a suffix at the end to change the meaning.
		For example, in the word "unflattering," the root is simply "flatter," while the prefix "un-" makes the word negative, and the suffix "-ing" changes it from a verb into an adjective (specifically, a participle).
		English itself does not use prefixes as heavily as it once did, but many English words come from Latin, which uses prefixes and suffixes (you can use the word affix to refer either to a prefix or a suffix) quite extensively.
	www.uottawa.ca /academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/wordform.html (181 words)

	Amazon.com: Word Stems: A Dictionary: Books: John Kennedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Two alphabetically arranged lists follow: common words with their word stems highlighted in boldface type and word stems with definitions and language roots.
		This books is not only one of the best guides for the study of the etymology of languages, but also shows a lot of proof of the Grimm's Law's defficiency to explain the mechanism in the shift of sound in the Indo-European languages.
		For instance, the Grimm's Law failed to explain the shift of from Latin word , from Latin , from Latin , all of which are obviously changes between consonant and .
	www.amazon.com /Word-Stems-Dictionary-John-Kennedy/dp/1569470510 (1175 words)

	Spell Sport
		Not more than two words may be formed in one go, one across and one down.
		These words may make use of letters of existing words, either by extending them, at one or both ends, or by forming a junction or cross formation.
		If a single word is formed, across or down, it scores the number of letters in it.
	www.gpj.connectfree.co.uk /games1.htm (1267 words)

	Epistle Faith Ministry-Word Formation, Lagos, Nigeria
		God gave me the vision in the year 1992 to teach and preach the word of faith and deliverance and to give hope to the hopeless.
		By the grace of God the ministry, “ Epistle of Faith Ministries” (AKA Word Formation) started in my house with my wife and me in December 2000 and was commissioned December 9, 2001.
		The Church is the body of Christ with divine appointments to live a godly example both in word and deed.
	home.earthlink.net /~anointed.word/EFM.htm (399 words)

	'sleep' word formation - WordReference Forums
		But I'm pretty sure it's not a word, but it would definitely be understood, because I might even be tempted to say it myself.
		If you want to be fun, you can say "I was feeling bright-eyed and bushy- tailed" a reference to the furry rabbit, as if you were so awake you were hopping around all the time...
		I think the problem with this word (sleepless) is that it is not something that most people would say: They would say,
	forum.wordreference.com /showthread.php?t=8456 (1330 words)

	WORD FORMATION EXERCISES
		Use the word at the end of each gap to form a new word with which to fill the gap.
		While doing this exercise, look for clues which tell you what kind of word is missing (adjective, noun, verb, adverb).
		Once you have decided on the correct form of the word, click on the arrow in the gap to check your answer.
	english-language.webpark.pl /wordformation.html (327 words)

	LING 101: Morphology
		There is nothing about dogs that forces the word for "dog" to contain [g] or [k] or [d].
		Speakers can add new Content Words to the language, and so they are also called the "open class" vocabulary, because it is open to additions.
		Furthermore, some words are so irregular that they have no internal analysis, for example "went" is the SUPPLETIVE form for what would otherwise be "go-ed".
	www.ling.udel.edu /idsardi/101/notes/morphology.html (1764 words)

	Mechanics of Etymology; Greek and Latin Roots; Phoneme Shifts
		Modern English is not included as it is actually a mixture of Old English (also known as Anglo-Saxon) and Old French which makes it, technically, a creole.
		If we check the same columns for Greek we find that the only difference is that the s changes to an h and, hepta is indeed the Greek word for seven.
		Again, the Latin word pater becomes the English father and the Latin frater becomes brother.
	www.takeourword.com /theory.html (427 words)

	word formation Introduction to Linguistics
		This does not mean, however, that the study of word formation only addresses how words are created that express concepts new to us current speakers of the language.
		But understanding the way in which the word was formed anew at one point in the past helps us see the relationship with other words.
		It is a word that we learned as kids so we could brag to know the longest word in German.
	www.hamline.edu /personal/aschramm/linguistics2001/5wordfrm.html (837 words)

	Russian Word Formation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Students are expected already to own a copy of Charles Townsend's Russian Word Formation; if not, it is available in the IU Bookstore as a textbook for L501 and L403.
		You could identify all examples of each stress type, along with related words, and attempt to figure out what, if any, morphological characteristics of the "motivating" words or roots might be correlated with the stress distinction.
		You could argue a position on the issue of homophony in word formation; for example, the suffix -ka derives diminutives (tetka), more or less unmarked female equivalents to masculine nouns (studentka), and deverbal process/result nouns (proverka).
	aatseel.org /syllabi/fowler.html (1263 words)

	Word Formation - Prefixes - Roots - ESL Resources
		"The basic part of any word is the root; to it, you can add a prefix at the beginning and/or a suffix at the end to change the meaning." with examples
		Words, with Images, that are Mostly Derived from Latin and Greek Elements
		Prefixes "are added to the beginnings of words to change their meaning.
	www.ac-nancy-metz.fr /enseign/anglais/Henry/wordformation.htm (812 words)

	WORD FORMATION. Free English course online to improve vocabulary and to learn English language
		Put in the female equivalent of the words explained.
		Rewrite the words using diminutive suffixes to make the smaller or friendly forms of the following words.
		Fill in the sentences using a prefix with the correct form of the word in brackets.
	www.nonstopenglish.com /allexercises/vocabulary/Vocabulary-word_formation-009.asp (234 words)

	BAEF :: Editing Resources
		See NLM's Recommended Formats for Bibliographic Citation (1991), a style guide that addresses electronic formats, including CD-ROMs, e-mail and the Internet, courtesy of your tax dollars.
		Editorium is geared toward mastering Microsoft Word and other contemporary editing programs.
		The Editorium offers macros and software programs, some for sale and others that are free and do tend to ease the editing life.
	www.editorsforum.org /resources.php (372 words)

	Word-formation: some things to consider
		brought in new affixes as well as new words
		compounds are formed from two free-standing words (“independent lexical items”):
		first, borrowed words appear that are complex, i.e.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~cpercy/courses/WordFormation.htm (395 words)

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