Word formation as a linguistic discipline and subject of its research. Types of word-formation: аffixation, сonversion, сomposition, shortening. Minor types of word-formation: reduplication, blending, initialism, neologism, onomatopoeia, backformation.
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Words which consist of a root and an affix (or several affixes) are called derived words or derivatives and are produced by the process of word-building known as affixation (or derivation).