Clipping (morphology)

In linguistics, clipping, also called truncation or shortening,^[1] is word formation by removing some segments of an existing word to create a diminutive word or a clipped compound. Clipping differs from abbreviation, which is based on a shortening of the written, rather than the spoken, form of an existing word or phrase. Clipping is also different from back-formation, which proceeds by (pseudo-)morpheme rather than segment, and where the new word may differ in sense and word class from its source.^[2] In English, clipping may extend to contraction, which mostly involves the elision of a vowel that is replaced by an apostrophe in writing.

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[2] NAGANO, AKIKO (2007). "Marchand's Analysis of Back-Formation Revisited" (PDF). Acta Linguistica Hungarica. 54 (1): 33–72. doi:10.1556/ALing.54.2007.1.2. ISSN 1216-8076. JSTOR 26190112.

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