word formation processes

Question 1

neologisms

Answer 1

newly coined words. teenspeak is particularly prone to spawning neologism

Question 2

blends

Answer 2

words produced using parts of two words put together

Question 3

initialism

Answer 3

made up of the beginning letters in a sequence of words, said as a series of letter

Question 4

acronym

Answer 4

using the first letters of a series of words and pronounced as a new word ‘SCUBA’

Question 5

shortenings

Answer 5

or reductions. dropping the end from a word to create a shorter word. fridge from refrigerator

Question 6

compounding

Answer 6

creating a new word by putting together two free morphemes “facebook”

Question 7

conversion

Answer 7

process of converting words from one word class to another without adding suffixes to the word. email can be noun or verb

Question 8

contractions

Answer 8

putting two shortened words together “do not - don’t”

Question 9

collocations

Answer 9

safe and sound. blonde refers to hair

Question 10

borrowing

Answer 10

taking words from other languages

Question 11

commonisation

Answer 11

esky instead of cooler

Question 12

archaism

Answer 12

words no longer used in every day life. thy

Question 13

word loss

Answer 13

occurs when an object or concept dissapears from society. taboo, words becoming politically incorrect. meanings of words change

Question 14

morphological patterning

Answer 14

new words are made by affixation. mishy-mashy, bluey-greenish

Question 15

lexical patterning

Answer 15

simple lexical patterning: repetition of a word in its identical or similar form. sing, sings
complex lexical patterning: words and any forms of them created through affixation. category, categorise, categorical