ACADEMICIA: An International Multidisciplinary Research Journal
  • Year: 2020
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 11

Problems of the development of word formation in modern linguistics

Senior Teacher of UzSWLU, Uzbekistan

Online published on 11 January, 2021.

Abstract

This article is devoted to some theoretical problems of word formation. This term is understood as the formation of new words, due to the needs of the communication through various wordformation means, acting in a given language in a given period of its development. As you know, the creation of new words to meet the demands of the communicative intention is the main function of word formation. On the one hand, it is closely connected with vocabulary, on the other with grammar and thus, it allows including a section of word formation in the description of the vocabulary of the language and its grammatical structure.

Keywords

Word Formation, Word-Derivation, Productivity, Referent, Affixation, Grammar, Prefixation, Suffixation, Synchrony, Diachrony, Compounding Vocabulary, Grammatical Structure