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Blending? 拼缀法 A blend is a compound word made by blending one word with another word. Blending: combining parts of two words or a word plus a part of another word. e.g. Amerind — American Indian Europort — European port Four types according to their morphological structures ① Head + tail:? The first part of the first word + the last part of the second one （brunch, autocide, Eurovision,Japlish） ② Head + head: the first part of the first word + the first part of the second one （hi-tech, psywa(r), comsat, interpol） ③ Head + word: the first part of the first word + whole form of the second one （medicare, medicaid,lansign, Eurasia） ④ Word + tail: whole form of the first word + the last part of the second one （ airtel, profitward, moonmark, lunarnaut ） Backformation逆成法 ----The method of creating words by removing the supposed suffixes, so called because many of the removed endings are not suffixes but inseparable parts of the words. 去掉所谓的后缀而产生新词的方法，这是因为许多被去掉的后缀不是真正的后缀，而是单词不可分割的部分。 The opposite process of suffixation Stylistically, back-formation words are largely informal and some of them have successfully gained currency. 1). From nouns ending in –er, -ar, -or,-sion,etc e.g. to automate—automation to edit — editor to lase—laser to peddle—peddler 2). From nouns endings in other forms: e.g. to diagnose—diagnosis to enthuse—enthusiasm to type---typewriter 3). From noun compounding: e.g. to babysit—babysitter to housekeep—housekeeper to lip-read—lip-reading 4). From adjectives e.g. to gloom—gloomy to greed—greedy to laze—lazy Chapter 5 Word-formation in English Minor processes of Word Formation I Revision Prefixation Suffixation Conversion Compounding Conversion Definition: assigning the base to a different word class with no change of form. E.g. release---release full conversion VS partial conversion (the wealthy, the poor, the ignorant) (1)Conversion to nouns (2)C