New words may be formed from existing words by the removal of a suffix thought to be part of the old word. Such a process is called ______, e. g. caretake from caretaker.()
New words may be formed from existing words by the removal of a suffix thought to be part of the old word. Such a process is called ______, e. g. caretake from caretaker.()
A、back-formation
B、clipping
C、blending
D、abbreviating
【正确答案】：A
【题目解析】：(P145)解析:逆向构词法是把一个已经存在的单词的“词缀”去掉以构成新词的过程。例如, caretake来自 caretaker
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