Lexical Change 0.0 / 5 ? English LanguageLanguage change over timeA2/A-levelWJEC Created by: LivBarnesCreated on: 07-03-17 13:45 Neologism A new word 1 of 17 Archaism Obsolete; no longer in use 2 of 17 Initialism BBC, TV letters said seperately 3 of 17 Acronym NASA can be said as a new word 4 of 17 Clipping Forming words by dropping one or more syllables eg;flu 5 of 17 Affixation Addition of pre/suffixes eg; sudden(ly) 6 of 17 Conversion Word changes class eg; text (noun>verb) 7 of 17 Compound Two words added together eg; girl +friend 8 of 17 Blend Two words mixed together eg; smoke + fog 9 of 17 Back formation Removal of suffix eg; sculptor > sculpt 10 of 17 Borrowings/etymology (word origin) Cafe from French 11 of 17 Interchangable letters U/V , I/Y, long F/S 12 of 17 Extra letters (Pre GVS) Breake, shoees, presse 13 of 17 Noun capitalisation eg; Teacher, Man 14 of 17 Properiety names Named after a brand eg; Vacuum cleaner>hoover 15 of 17 Eponyms Name of something after a name eg; nicotine>Karen Nicot 16 of 17 Inflection (changes tense, gender) eg; Waitor/waitress 17 of 17
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