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ENLARGING THE LEXICON

ENLARGING THE LEXICON. Acronyms. Formed from the initial letters Often found as names of organization Examples: FAS ( Football Association of Selangor ) FAM ( Football Association of Malaysia ) JAIS ( Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor ). Derivation. Words made up of morphemes .

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ENLARGING THE LEXICON

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  1. ENLARGING THE LEXICON

  2. Acronyms Formed from the initial letters Often found as names of organization Examples: FAS (Football Association of Selangor) FAM (Football Association of Malaysia) JAIS (Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor)

  3. Derivation Words made up of morphemes. Morphemes can be free or bound. Free morphemes can stand alone. Example: cupboard– made from 2 free morphemes, cupand board. Bound morphemes must always be attached to a free morphemes. Examples: he talks, they worked.

  4. Back-formation Process of removing an affix from an existing word to create new word. Examples: televise created from television, lazecreated fromlazy.

  5. Blending Formed by taking elements from 2 words and combining them to form new word. Example: Centertainment – centre and entertainment.

  6. Clipping The deletion of syllables from polysyllabic word. Examples: Doc (Doctor), Sis (Sister), Bro (Brother).

  7. Coinage The creation of an entirely new word. Particularly rare type of word formation. Examples: DVD, Avira, Vista.

  8. Conversion The practice of changing the word class of an existing word to create new word. Examples: KFC-ing, McD-ing, CITY-ing.

  9. Onomatopoeia Lexical representations of particular word. Examples: bong, bang, boom.

  10. Semantic change Existing words can take on a new meanings. Examples: holy-day (holiday).

  11. New concept Technological innovation caused the semantic widening of mouse so that it refers to the device used for moving a cursor on a computer.

  12. Close conceptual or factual relation Close links between particular concepts can result in changes of meaning. Example: To imply is to suggest without stating explicitly. To infer is to draw conclusion based on an implication.

  13. Emotionally marked concepts Certain emotionally marked domains such as death and sex are marked as taboo. Euphemisms are often used in place of potentially embarrassing alternatives. Example: use he’s passed away instead of die.

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