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    Backformation and Conversion

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    Backformation and conversion are word formation processes. Backformation involves creating a new word by removing an affix from an existing word, such as creating "babysit" from "babysitter". Conversion involves assigning a word a change in syntactic category without changing its form, such as using a noun as a verb like "drink water". The document provides examples of words formed through backformation like "nature" from "natural", and examples of conversion including using verbs as nouns or adjectives as verbs.

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    Backformation and conversion are word formation processes. Backformation involves creating a new word by removing an affix from an existing word, such as creating "babysit" from "babysitter". Conversion involves assigning a word a change in syntactic category without changing its form, such as using a noun as a verb like "drink water". The document provides examples of words formed through backformation like "nature" from "natural", and examples of conversion including using verbs as nouns or adjectives as verbs.

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    Backformation and conversion are word formation processes. Backformation involves creating a new word by removing an affix from an existing word, such as creating "babysit" from "babysitter". Conversion involves assigning a word a change in syntactic category without changing its form, such as using a noun as a verb like "drink water". The document provides examples of words formed through backformation like "nature" from "natural", and examples of conversion including using verbs as nouns or adjectives as verbs.

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    Backformation and Conversion

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    Backformation and conversion are word formation processes. Backformation involves creating a new word by removing an affix from an existing word, such as creating "babysit" from "babysitter". Conversion involves assigning a word a change in syntactic category without changing its form, such as using a noun as a verb like "drink water". The document provides examples of words formed through backformation like "nature" from "natural", and examples of conversion including using verbs as nouns or adjectives as verbs.

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    BACKFORMATION

    &
    CONVERSION
    GROUP 2
    Member of Groups

    Ananda Audy .S. M. Rasyid Sidiq


    01 03

    Aurell Nathalie Putri Fadillah


    02 04
    Table of contents

    Definition of Definition of
    01 Backformation 03 Conversion

    Example of Example of
    02 Backformation 04 Conversion
    Backformation

    Backformation is a word-formation process in


    morphology where a new word is created by
    removing an affix from an already existing
    word. Back formation is thus the opposite of
    derivation: C – B = A as opposed to A + B = C.
    Example

    Babysitter Emotion Creative


    Babysitter – (-er) = Babysit Emotion – (-ion) = Emote Creative – (-ive) = Create
    (-er) is inluded in agentive suffix

    Natural Enthusiasm Lazy


    Enthusiasm – (-asm) = Enthuse Lazy – (-y) = Laze
    Natural – (-al) = Nature
    Conversion
    - Conversion is a word formation process in which a word is
    assigned a change in syntactic category without any change in
    form.

    - Conversion also called as zero derivational, or a word form that


    doesn't need to be added or remove a morphemes to make it a
    new word.

    - In conversion a word which has the same grammatical and same


    meaning, doesn't really has the same class word.
    Example

    Verb > Noun Noun > Verb Adj > Verb


    - Lia is cooking some eggs. - It is important for us to - That was total disaster.
    - She wanted to be a cook. drink enough water. - The loss totaled $5000 this week.
    - Mom have watered our
    plants today.

    Adj > Noun Particle > Verb

    - We sat by the lovely lake and Saturn is the planet with


    watched the sunset. many rings.
    - They met at university and fell
    hopelessly in love.
    Introduction
    You can give a brief description of the topic you want to talk
    about here. For example, if you want to talk about Mercury,
    you can say that it’s the smallest planet in the entire Solar
    System
    20,000
    Big numbers catch your audience’s attention
    THANK YOU !

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