Lexical change

Question 1

Creation of new words?

Answer 1

coinage

Question 2

Borrowing?

Answer 2

creating words by borrowing words from other languages (e.g barbeque - spanish) A lot of borrowing relate to food or objects not traditionally found in the UK (e.g spaghetti)

Question 3

Affixation?

Answer 3

words can also be created by affixation where prefixes and suffixes are added to the end of an existing word. E.g the greek word hyper is added to the beginning of words hyperactive, hypersensitive

Question 4

Compounding?

Answer 4

Sometimes a new word is created by adding two separate words together to form another word e.g handbag

Question 5

Blending?

Answer 5

Two words merged together

Question 6

Conversion?

Answer 6

New words are also created when an existing word changes classes, this is also known as conversion. E.g many words that started off as nouns, are also verbs - text/to text, mail/to mail

Question 7

Clipping?

Answer 7

When you drop one or more syllable to create an abbreviation e.g parents - rents

Question 8

Initialism

Answer 8

Where the first letter of a word stands for itself e.g FBI, ET

Question 9

Acronym

Answer 9

The initial letter that are pronounced how they’re spelt e.g NASA, WAGS