In English lexicology, understanding ho… (UNIVALI 2025)

Língua InglesaFormação de palavras – prefixos e sufixosUNIVALI 2025

Pref Luiz Alves

In English lexicology, understanding how words are formed and related is essential for analysing vocabulary expansion and semantic change. When the word "unbelievable" is examined from a morphological perspective, which process best describes its formation and lexical structure?

ABack-formation, because it removes an affix to create a simpler lexical item.BClipping, because it reduces the original word to a shorter phonological form.CDerivation, because it adds both a prefix and a suffix to a root, modifying its meaning and grammatical class.DCompounding, because it joins two independent lexical bases into a single unit.

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