A Closer Look at Philippine English Word-Formation Frameworks

This paper is a meta-analysis of the word-formation processes' frameworks used by Filipino speakers of English. It presents these processes that operated in the creation of the Philippine English (henceforth PhilE) lexicon since the 1970's and argues that Philippine English lexical-formation creatively dances with the changing of time. The limited studies on the present thesis conducted from 1973 to 2015 show interesting lexical items created through the existing L-1 English word-formation processes. Philippine English lexical items culled from the early 21st century writings were found formed through the existing word-formation processes and through creative expansions or modifications of such processes with the deliberate integration of figures of speech like: anagram, metonymy, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, and pun. This paper therefore proposes a tentative composite modified framework adopted from all the existing L-1 English and ESL variety frameworks.