A Morphological Analysis of New Words Added to English from 2020 to 2024
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morphology, word formation processes, dictionary, new wordsAbstract
Because of the growing need to express new ideas and feelings, new words are formed constantly. The area that is concerned with this is word formation. It is a part of morphology that deals with the processes that form new words. The processes are compounding, derivation, conversion, clipping, blending, initialism, acronym, reduplication. The study shows that the processes are not equally productive because some processes are very productive while some of them are very unproductive. The aim of this study is to find out how many new words have been added to Oxford English Dictionary from 2020 to 2024. To show the processes of word formation that formed the new entries and to find out the most productive processes during that period. This study makes use of a mixed approach as it presents the numerical data of the new entries and analyses these entries morphologically. The data is collected from Oxford English Dictionary Online for analyzing the entries of new words in English.
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