Week 6 – quantitative changes

Question 1

What is word-formation?

Answer 1

= a process of creating new words by means of existing elements and according to the patterns and rules of a given language

1. derivation
2. compounding
3. conversion
4. quantitative changes

Question 2

1. Clipping

Answer 2

1. final (app, fab, mike)
2. initial (phone, cello, roo)
3. final+initial (fridge, flu, Liz)
4. medial (specs, maths, abs)

Question 3

Embellished clipping

Answer 3

= pet naming

-y: hubby, mummy, kitty, prezzie, birdie
-o: ammo, aggro, appro, doggo, weirdo
-er: rugger, soccer, footer, fresher
-s: turps, Babs, Debs
-ers: starkers, preggers, champers

Question 4

Acronymy – types acc. to structure

Answer 4

1. letter acronyms (NATO)
2. syllabic or clipping acronyms (sitcom)
3. hybrids (email)

Question 5

Acronyms –types acc. to function

Answer 5

1. shorthand
   - time-saving
   - EPCOT
2. mnemonic acronym
   - coined to help remember events or ideas
   - SALT
3. slogan
   - to label a cause/send a message
   - DUMP

Question 6

Initialism/alphabetism

Answer 6

• initial letters, pronounced as a sequence of letters
  FBI, TV, ISBN, BTW

Question 7

Back-derivation

Answer 7

• creation of a new word by dropping a suffix/prefix from another
  television > televise, lazy > laze, expletive > explete

Question 8

Blending + structural types

Answer 8

= unpreditable shortening and compounding, related to abbreviation and derivation

a) compounding blend
- back clipping + front clipping (smog)

b) back/front clipping + word (escalift)

c) back/front clipping + combining form (multiversity, dictaphone)

d) phonaestheme + blend (flimmer<flicker+glimmer)