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Lexicalization Idioms Opacity. How do we learn new words? What can be found in dictionaries? inapplicability Institutionalized words. What isn’t in the dictionaries?. uninstitutionalized potential register specific words archaic words nonce-formations.
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How do we learn new words? • What can be found in dictionaries? inapplicability • Institutionalizedwords
What isn’t in the dictionaries? • uninstitutionalized • potential • register specific words • archaic words • nonce-formations
How do words become institutionalized? • go through some stages to become lexicalized: • Phonological acceptation • Loss of motivation • Idiomatization
Different levels of linguistic analysis highwayman family tree callgirl • Red herring • Black market
Kick the bucket • Blow a raspberry • It’s raining cats and dogs • Stop beating about a bush
He rested onhis wartime laurels and neglected his education With his green hair, Jenny stuck out like a sore thumb at the party
levels of lexicalisation • degrees of opacity: • opaque • transparent • Boyfriend vs. dovetail • She hung clothes to dry. Vs. She hung him to dry. • Reduce, induce, deduce, seduce, conduce, produce.
CLITICS • A clitic is a bound morpheme which is not an affix but which occurs as part of a word • the process of clitisation, that is adding clitics to a word
Two classes of clitics • Class 1 clitics –always dependent. The only example of this class of clitics is the Genitive‘s’. • Class 2 clitics – occurring as independent or dependent. Examples of this type of clitics are the reduced forms of auxiliaries:‘ll,‘d, ‘ve, ‘s. • Need a host if dependent