Morphological analysis uncovers word formation processes in Trump's speech, highlighting trends in compounding and derivation.
Morphology is a branch of linguistics which deals with how words are formed. This study deals with a morphological analysis of processes of word formation in Donald Trump's victory speech 2024. The theoretical background deals with morphology, word, and processes of word formation. These processes are compounding, derivation, invention, echoism, clipping, acronomy, blending, back-formation, folk-etymology, antonomasia, conversion, and reduplication. The model that is used in data analysis is Stageberg (1981) An Introductory English Grammar. The practical side of the study is to analyze Trump's victory speech according to the mentioned model and to identify the frequency of each process of word formation. The conclusion shows which processes are used in Trump's victory speech and which process is used the most and which ones are used less
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Amal Awda Ghadab (2025) studied this question.
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