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<p><b>Back-formation</b> is the process or result of creating a <a href="page.php?w=neologism">new word</a> via <a href="page.php?w=Morphology_%28linguistics%29">morphology</a>, typically by removing or substituting actual or supposed <a href="page.php?w=affix">affix</a>es from a <a href="page.php?w=lexical_item">lexical item</a>, in a way that expands the number of <a href="page.php?w=lexeme">lexeme</a>s associated with the corresponding <a href="page.php?w=root_%28linguistics%29">root word</a>. <a href="page.php?w=James_Murray_%28lexicographer%29">James Murray</a></p><p>
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