This paper sets out on a comparative analysis of similar word-formation processes in English
and Arabic. In doing so, it hopesto emerge and serve assubsequent and reliable, albeit partial,
reference material for English and Arabic linguistics, especially in reference to linguistic
structures. The framework herein for the study and analysis of word-formation processes in
both languages may also be applied in future studies and other genres, corpora, and texts.
This study enriches the research findings and meta-theory in the field of linguistics,
contributing to the current linguistic intellectualism trends. The specific processes discussed
are acronyms, antonomasia, backformation, blending, borrowing, compounding, and
derivation
