WORD FORMATION WAYS IN ENGLISH

The article deals with the word formation ways in English. It introduces language as a constantly moving and developing system. The article mentions that language belongs to society, there is no society without language, and there is no language without society. With this claim it points out the importance of the language. Then the article highlights the creation of new words over times. The article reveals that new words are created due to the internal capabilities of languages or due to borrowings from other languages, and enrich the vocabulary of the language. New words are reported to have been formed at all stages of language history in the article. The article also specifically emphasizes that the emergence of a number of new words in the English language is associated with the names of specific individuals such as J. Chaucer, W. Shakespeare, and others. Word creation is presented as one of the important areas of linguistics in the article. The methods of word formation have been identified in the article as well. Some information on the types of word formation in English such as “affixation, conversion, and the formation of compound words” have been touched upon widely in the article as well.