![]() ![]() Compound words have a new meaning, which is obviously related to the meanings of the other words. See acronym: but the letters are pronounced individually, not as a word.It means creating a word by adding up two or more different words. NATO, laser, Wasp (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) The term acronym is used only when the sequence of letters can be pronounced as one word. “(…) a word coined by taking the initial letters of the words in a title or phrase and using them as a new word.” ibid.: 237. Motel from motorist's hotel, shoat from sheep and goat, ballute from balloon and parachute “(…) a new lexeme formed from parts of two (or possibly more) other words in such a way there is no transparent analysis into morphs.” ibid.: 234 “(…) process whereby a lexeme (simplex or complex) is shortened, while still retaining the same meaning and still being a member of the same form class.” ibid.: 233 which part of the lexeme is shortened is unpredictableīack-clipping - mag from magazine foreclipping - loid from celluloid, bus from omnibus fore- and back-clipping - flu from influenza “(…) the change of form class of a form without any corresponding change of form.” Bauer, 1983: 32.ĭown (adverb: calm down, adj.: he was really down (= depressed) after meeting prep.: he ran down the street, verb: he downed the beer, noun: he's had his ups and downs, the teacher has a down on him) To lase from laser (the device laser must have existed before a verb for the activity carried out by means of the device was formed), lech from lecher in analogy to love : lover “Back-formation is the formation of a new lexeme by the deletion of a suffix, or supposed suffix, from an apparently complex form by analogy with other instances where the suffixed and non-suffixed forms are both lexemes.” Bauer, 1983: 64. Unkind, remake - class-maintaining befriend, ablaze, encage - class-changingĪ suffix (bound morpheme) is added to the end of a free morpheme / word to form a new lexical unitĪ (diachronic) process where what appears to be a suffix is removed from a lexeme to form a new lexical item, usu. (4) Rank-Hovis, prince-consort ( prince and consort at the same time)- copulative / dvandva compoundĪt least one initial / final combining form ( ICF / FCF) (morphemes of Greek or Latinate origin) is combined with a free morpheme or another neo-classical combining form into a new lexical unit -o- is often inserted to make a free English lexeme compatible with the Latinate or Greek combining formīiology, television, bio-science, jazzophileĪ prefix (bound morpheme) is added to the beginning of a free morpheme / word to form a new lexical unit (1) houseboat – endocentric compound (2) paleface (person) - exocentric / bahuvrihi compound (3) girlfriend - the girl is a friend, the friend is a girl) - appositional cpd. Semantic classification for compound nouns (relation head to cpd.): (1) endocentric compounds (2) exocentric / bahuvrihi compounds (3) appositional compounds (4) copulative / dvandva compounds from already existing morphemes of the languageĢ or more potentially free morphemes / roots are combined to form a new lexical unit. ![]() ![]() Hoover, quark (from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake ) ![]() the coining of new words not based on existing materialįormation of a new word without morphological, phonological, orthographical motivation ![]()
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