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Metalanguage Flashcards

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Lexicology

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The study of words and word classes

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Lexeme

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A word

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Open Class Words

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Word classes that often change and have new additions

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Closed Class Words

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Word classes that rarely change or have no new additions

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Noun

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A lexeme referring to a person, a place, or a thing

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Proper Noun

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A lexeme that is the name, often using a capitol letter

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Verb

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An action

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Auxiliary Verbs

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A type of verb that helps to express the tense of an action

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Modal Verbs

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A type of verb that shows a ‘force’, e.g. must, should, would, might

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Adjective

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A lexeme that describes/adds detail to a noun

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Adverb

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A lexeme that describes how an action (verb) is done

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Interjection

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A lexeme that is used to express an emotion

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Determiner

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A lexeme that specifics the number, definiteness or ownership of a noun

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Pronoun

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A lexeme that is used to replace a noun

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Conjuction

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A word that joins clauses together

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Coordinating Conjunction

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A conjunction that joins two main clauses together

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Subordinating Conjunction

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A conjunction that joins a main and a subordinate clause together

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Preposition

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A word that indicates time, place, direction or location

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Word Formation Processes

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The methods in which words are changed or created

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Blend

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Two words blended together over a shared syllable/phoneme

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Acronym

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A series of letters that are pronounced like a word

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Initialism

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A series of letters that are sounded out letter by letter

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Shortening

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The removal of parts of a word to make it shorter

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Compounding

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Joining two free lexemes together to make a new word

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Contraction

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Joining two words together with an apostrophe

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Collocation

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Words that commonly appear together

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Neologism

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New words

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Archaism

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Words that have faded out of usage, very uncommon

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Borrowing

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A lexeme taken from another language

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Commonisation

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Proper nouns that turn into common nouns

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