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back-formation

A coined verb that began as a noun, or a coined noun that began as a verb; for example: “liaise” (verb) as a back-formation of “liaison” (noun).

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A mixture of clipping and back-formation can be observed in (21):

Here, C is originally the adjective root from which the noun Wuste 'desert' was derived, so this instance can be seen as a back-formation. The resultant analogies, however, can only be interpreted as clippings (since the alleged short adjective forms do not exist).

Anti-naming through non-word-formation

Both are involved in the configuring of the latter's semantics no matter whether the compound verb results from direct composition or from back-formation. Wald and Besserman assume the existence of "a formal and semantic economy in the internal structure of a compound verb" which is limited to "what is necessary to semantic interpretation of that compound verb, and suppressing what is unnecessary in that context" (Wald and Besserman 2002: 423).

compound verbs in English and Bulgarian are traditionally marginalized and overlooked on grounds of their heterogeneity in terms of origin (compound verbs cab created via composition, back-formation and conversion in English), which inevitably leads to expectations for diverse semantic constitution and divergent properties as lexical items stemming from the generally assumed cause-effect relationship between word-formation process and lexical properties (including semantic composition).

Compounds, lexicalization patterns and parts-of-speech: English and Bulgarian compound verbs in comparison and contrast

Back-formations appeal to lawyers because too-short words make us nervous.

I hope this will inspire you all to remedy needless back-formations and revive the shorter, more vivid words they tend to replace.

Legal Writing Notebook: Overcome the distraction of shiny neologisms

In other words, "[a]uthor's rights will thus appear as back-formations within the development of industrial copyright" (44).