User:Celtic Chef/sandbox

The Morphology page was very informative. As I was looking through the page to see if there was any way that I could contribute in a meaningful way I learned a lot about the topic itself. THe examples that were given using both English and other foreign languages beautifully depicted some of the many processes that words go through in order to provide us with the immaculate lexicon that we all have today. When it came to adding an edit to the article I could not find much other than elaborating on the portion on word formation in which previously before my edit only talked about derivation and compounding so for my edit I added the various other methods in which words form in any given language, and with the edits approval I hope to enlighten others in just how interesting the morphology of our language is. There is also word formation in the processes of clipping in which a portion of a word is removed to create a new one, blending in which two parts of different words are blended into one, acronyms in which each letter of the new word represents a specific word in the representation i.e. NATO for North atlantic Treaty Organization, borrowing in which words from one language are taken and used in another, and finally coinage in which a new word is created to represent a new object or concept.[10] Plag, Ingo (2003). "Word Formation in English" (PDF). http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/cam041/2003048479.pdf. Cambridge. Retrieved 2016-11-30. External link in |website= (help)