Lexical Change vocab Flashcards

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How Lexis can change

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Creating new words
Adapting words
Borrowing words

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Affixation

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Prefixes: the addition of a morpheme to the beginning of a root word e.g. microwave, multimedia
Suffixes: the addition of a morpheme to the end of a root word e.g. radicalising

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Conversion

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When a word changes it’s word class without adding a suffix e.g. bottle, text

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Compound

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Combining separate words to create a new word, sometimes using a hyphen e.g. happy hour, laptop, man-flu

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Blend

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Two words fusing to make a new one e.g. snog, motel

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Acronym

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A word made up from initial letters of a phrase - sounded out as a word e.g. NASA

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Initialism

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A word made up from initial letters, each letter is pronounced e.g. AKA

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Clipping

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A new word produced by shortening an existing one e.g. edit, obvs

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Borrowing/Loan word

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The introduction of a word from one language to another - they can become anglicised or remain similar to the original e.g. chocolate (Nakuatl), pundit (Sanskrit)

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Eponym

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The name of a person after whom something is named e.g. Sandwich, Braille

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Proprietary names

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The name given to a product by one organisation becomes the commonly used name e.g. Hoover, Kleenex

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Neologism

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A new word/expression or a new meaning for existing expression e.g. wicked

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