Lexical Flashcards
Attributive Adjective
An adjective before a noun
Predictive Adjectives
An adjective that comes after a noun
Dynamic Verb
A verb that describes a physical action
Stative verb
A verb that’s describes a mental or emotional action
Conjunctions
Words that join sentences together e.g and, therefore
Prepositions
Words that define relationships between objects such as time and space
Auxiliary verbs
A word that helps a main verb express it’s meaning
Deontic modal auxiliary verb
Auxiliarys that’s express certainty
Epistemic modal auxiliary
Modal Auxiliarys that express possibility
Affixation
The addition of prefixes and suffixes
Compounding
The addition of two words together e.g lapdancer
Conversion
When a noun is turned into a verb
Initialism
Shortening a phrase to the first letters and saying them separately e.g AQA
Acronym
Shortening a phrase to letter and pronouncing it as a word e.g LOL
Blend
When two words are mixed into one new one e.g motel
Eponym
A word derived from a name
Back formation
When a verb derives from a noun
Borrowing
When a word is taken from another language
Abbreviation
When a word is shortened e.g the met office / the meteorologist office
Neologism
When a new word is coined
Archaism
When a word is no longer used or becomes obsolete
Morpheme
The smallest recognisable unit of a word
Informalisation
The theory that modern speech is less formal
