Back-formation and Shortening

1. Back-formation can only be used to convert existing nouns into verbs.

True or False ?

• True

• False

In linguists, back-formation is the process of (1) ………… a new word (a neologism) by (2) ………… actual or supposed affixes from another word.

• changing - fixing

• converting - removing

• forming - removing

• making - converting

Choose the correct answer:

• surveillance: source word - survey: back-formation

• aviate: source word - aviation: back-formation

• translation: back-formation - translate: source word

Back-formation and clipping has the same effect in linguistics.

True or false?

• True

• False

1. The majority of back-formed words are ….…, for ……. can develop (or generate) a number of nouns, and various types of participial adjectives.

• verbs

• 1. nouns

• adverbs

• preposition

Shortening is a word creation process in which affixes are removed from existing words.

True or False?

• True

• False

Shortening is word formation by removing some segments of an existing word to create a synonym.

True or False?

• False

• True

Is "App" a Shortened word or an Original word?

• Original word

• Shortened word

• Both above answers are incorrect

Which one is the Shortening of “Comfortable”.

• Comfort

• Computer

• Comp

• Comfy

How many types of clipped words?

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5