Morphology & Lexicology Metalanguage P.1

Question 1

Blends

Answer 1

Words produced by using parts of two words to create a new one.

bromance
babyccino
frenemy

Question 2

Initialisms

Answer 2

Made up of beginning letters in a sequence of words, but continue to be said as a series of letters.

RSPCA
RSVP
RACV

Question 3

Shortening

Answer 3

Dropping the endings (sometimes beginnings) from a word to create a shorter form.

fridge (refrigerator)
gym (gymnasium)
cray (crazy)

Question 4

Compounding

Answer 4

The process of creating new words by putting two free morphemes together.

blueberry (blue + berry)
Facebook (face + book)

Question 5

Contractions

Answer 5

A word made by shortening and combining two words.

“can’t”
“I’ll”
“should’ve”