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<p>from Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Back-formation''' is a type of word formation by [[analogy]]. Back-formation occurs when speakers of a language assign a regular derivational structure to a word, although a part of this structure, namely the [[base]], did not previously exist. If this new base becomes a word of the language, it is called a back-formation. <br /> <br /> ===Examples===<br /> Speakers of English have reinterpreted the [[root compound]] ''baby-sitter'' as being a [[synthetic compound]], i.e. consisting of the [[base]] ''baby-sit'' and the [[suffix]] ''-er'', and on the basis of this [[noun]] they have coined the [[verb]] to ''baby-sit''. Another example is ''self-destruct'' from ''self-destruction''. <br /> <br /> ===Comment===<br /> In the literature, the existence of back-formation is taken as evidence for a [[word-based morphology]].<br /> <br /> ===Link===<br /> [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Back-formation&amp;lemmacode=814 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics] <br /> <br /> ===References===<br /> *Aronoff, Mark 1978. Language and Perception. ''Journal of Psycholinguistic Research'', 61-72. Harvard University Press.<br /> *Booij, G. 1989. Complex verbs and the theory of level-ordering. In ''Yearbook of morphology 1989'', Booij and Van Marle (eds.), 21-30. Dordrecht: Foris.<br /> *Marchand, H. 1969. ''The Categories and Types of Present-day English Word-Formation''. München: Beck.<br /> *Scalise, S. 1984. ''Generative Morphology''. Dordrecht: Foris. <br /> *Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory''. Oxford: Blackwell.<br /> <br /> {{dc}}<br /> [[Category:Morphology]]</div>

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