Inglise leksikoloogia
Abbr. Types of shortening:
*initial shortening- means dropping the first part (nt, telephone, phone)
*final shortening- second part dropped (exam, examination)
*acronyms- words made up of initial letters (nt, USA, WC)
*ellipsis- shortening an expression (nt, bub, public house)
*syncope-dropping unstressed syllables in the middle of the word(mathS, mathematics)
13. Blending
it is joining 2 stems and dropping points of both(nt, smog smoke plus fog, fringlish- french plus engl,
motel- motorists plus hotel)It operates in colloquial engl. It is concidered a minor word building type.
Yet new words appear today as well and it is quite productive. Blends began to appear in the 14th
century. Nowadays blends are popular in newspapers and advertisments.
14. Words from the historical point of view.
Archaic words become archaic because there appears a new name for the object. Archaic words are
used mainly in poetry to make the text more elevated and solemn
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