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14 Cards in this Set
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The process for creating new words?
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Coinage.
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The term for newly coined words/recent words?
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Neologisms.
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Borrowing:
1) Is? 2) Most borrowed words are? |
1) The process of taking words from other languages and incorporating them into the English Language.
2) Related to sports, foods and objects which aren't generally sources from the UK. |
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Scientific processes:
1) Cause lexical changes because? 2) For example? |
1) Advancements in science, medicine and technology mean that new words need to be coined.
2) When computers were invented, the common noun 'computer' was coined. |
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Affixation:
1) is? 2) Many of these come from? |
1) A type of inflection where a prefix/suffix is added onto an existing word.
2) Many affixations come from the classical languages (Greek/Latin). |
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Compounding:
1) Is? – E.g. |
The process of joining two existing words to create a new one.
– E.g. The common nouns 'thumb' and 'print' are compounded to coin the new common noun 'thumbprint'. |
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Blending:
1) Is? – E.g. |
1) The process of blending two existing words, where they're both involved in some clippings as they merge.
– E.g. 'satnat' is derived from the common nouns 'sattelite' and 'navigation'. |
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Conversion:
1) Is? – E.g. |
1) The process of changing an existing words word class to give change its semantics.
– E.g. The common noun 'text' is often used as the dynamic verb 'to text'. (Conversion is often from a noun to a verb) |
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You can also coin new words by abbreviating:
1) This is? |
1) Shortening an existing word.
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Abbreviating:
1) Clipping? –E.g. |
1) The process of omitting one or more syllables from a word in order to abbreviate.
– E.g. the common noun 'demo' is frequently used opposed to the un-abbreviated term of 'demonstration'. |
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Abbreviating:
1) Initialisms? – E.g. |
1) This is where you take the first letter of a collection of words. The letters are pronounced individually.
– E.g. 'BBC' is an initialism for 'British Broadcasting Company'. |
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Abbreviations:
1) Acronyms? – E.g. |
1) This is where you take the first letter from a collection of words and form a new word to represent them.
– E.g. 'LOL' is an acronym for 'Laugh Out Loud'. |
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Neologisms can also come from the names of people, places or things:
1) The term for this is? – E.g. |
1) An eponym.
– E.g. Ferrari was named after Enzo Ferrari. |
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Words can also disappear:
1) Words which aren't used anymore? 2) Words which are hardly used? |
1) Obsolete.
2) Archaisms |
