Morphology
Shortenings
Other major yet much less productive word-formation processes revolve around the concept of shortening. Although each process encompasses a different approach to shortening, they share one common feature: "their output is shorter that their input" (Kortmann 2005, 106).
As visualized in the chart below, there are 5 major groups within the field of shortening:
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Consider the following examples from these 5 groups:
- Clippings
- plane - airplane
- Blends
- brunch - breakfast + lunch
- Acronyms
- NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- Alphabetisms
- OED - Oxford English Dictionary
- Backformations
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