Lexical Formation + Change 0.0 / 5 ? English LanguageInvestigating languageA2/A-levelNone Created by: somethingcomfortingCreated on: 12-10-20 17:14 compounds words formed by combining two or more words (wheel + chair = wheelchair) 1 of 16 affixation words with Latin/Greek affixes combined with roots from these languages (postpone, rejuvenate, supersonic) 2 of 16 borrowings words that originate from a different language (sauna, ballet, guitar) 3 of 16 eponyms words formed from the name of a related person or brand (hoover, biro) 4 of 16 acronyms made from the initial letters of a longer phrase and said as a word (laser, AIDS, radar) 5 of 16 initialisms made from the initial letters of a longer phrase and said pronouncing each letter individually (GCSEs, MRI, OMG) 6 of 16 abbreviation/clipping the shortened form of a word (gym, bike, maths) 7 of 16 backformation a word incorrectly assumed to be the root of a longer word (burglar -> burgle, editor -> edit) 8 of 16 broadening a word expanded from a narrow meaning to be more general ("bird" once meant a nestling, "dog" once meant a specific species) 9 of 16 narrowing a general word that has had its meaning made more specific ("deer" meant all livestock, "meat" meant all food) 10 of 16 drift meaning has shifted over time ("nice" meant ignorant, "silly" meant holy then happy) 11 of 16 amelioration a word with negative connotations becomes milder ("naughty" meant evil, "wicked" now means good) 12 of 16 pejoration a word with positive connotations becomes worse ("villain" used to just mean someone of low social class but wasn't bad) 13 of 16 blending hybrids of multiple words (breakfast + lunch = brunch) 14 of 16 onomatopoeia words that represent a sound (scratch, buzz, smash) 15 of 16 conversion words that are usually one class being used as another (to access, a meetup) 16 of 16
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