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English lexicology
  • Size of English vocabulary
    • Vocabulary is a sum total of words used in a language by speakers or for dictionary- making . Active and passive vocabulary.
    • The Old English vocabulary was homogenous. There were about 50 000 – 60 000 words, 1/3 of which have survived.
      • About 450 loans from Latin
      • About 2000 from the Viking invasions.
    • The Middle -English vocabulary became a heterogeneous hybrid of Germanic and Romanic languages . 100 000 to 125 000 words.
    • Early Modern English. 200 000 – 250 000 words
      • English becomes a pluricentric language.
      • Polyglot. Cosmopolitan language
    • Modern English. 500 000 words

  • Core and periphery.
    • Origin of the 10,000 most frequent words:
      • Old English 31.8 %
      • French 45 %
      • Latin 16.7 %
      • Other Germanic languages 4.2 %
      • Other languages 2.3 %
    • The core vocabulary is predominantly Germanic (the, I, you, etc.) Only 4 of the top-ranked one hundred words in the Brown Corpus are of foreign origin.
      • 64 state
      • 81 use v (Old French)
      • 93 people (Anglo-Norman, > Old French)
      • 100 just (> Old French)
    • Core vocabulary and syllable structure:
      • 93 of the first one hundred words in the Brown Corpus are monosyllabic, and the remaining have two syllables (only, about, other, also, many even people)
    • Core vocabulary – often short (monosyllabic) words of Germanic and Old Norse origin.

  • Native and foreign element.
    The native vocabulary has 3 strata

  • Latin borrowings
    From 43 AD to 410 AD Britain was a province of the Roman Empire.

  • Greek borrowings
    • Christianity – The New Testament , Catholic Church
      • Abbot, angel, apostle, bishop
    • Everyday words
    • Literature
      • Epic , drama, poem , tragedy, comedy , theatre, epilogue, prologue, metaphor,
    • Affixes
      • a-, geo-, halo -, hyper-, hypo-, mega-, meta -, -ology, -o-, photo -, tele-,
    • Inflectional endings retained but spelt in the Latin style
      • Abiogenesis, aegis, analysis, anemone, antithesis, automaton, charisma, cinema, crisis , criterion, cytokinesis, diagnosis, dogma , drama, electron , enigma, genesis , gnosis, hoi polloi, kerygma, lalophobia, magma, osteoporosis, phenomenon , photon, rhinoceros, rhododendron, stigma , synthesis , thesis.
    • With Latin endings
      • Brontosaurus, chrysanthemum, diplodocus, hippopotamus, Pliohippus
    • Endings dropped or adapted
      • Agnostic, agnosticism, alphabet , alphabetic, analyst, analytic, anthocyanin, astrobleme, atheism, automatic , biologist, biology, blasphemy, charismatic, chemotherapy, chronobiology, cinematography, critic , criticism, dinosaur , dogmatic, dogmatism , dramatic, dramatist, electric, electronic, enigmatic, epistemic, epistemology, gene, genetic, herpetology, narcolepsy, odyssey , oligarchy, patriarch, phenomenology, photograph , pterodactyl, sympathomimetic.
    • Modern
      • Bouzouki, moussaka, ouzo, rebetika, sirtaki, souvlaki.


  • Celtic borrowings
    • clan offspring, family, stock ,
    • usquebaugh uisge beatha water of life, f. uisge water + beatha life - Whisky
    • loch - In Scotland : a lake; an arm of the sea, esp. when narrow or partially land - locked .
    • slogan sluagh-ghairm, f. sluagh host + gairm cry, shout.battle cry’, ‘war cry’
    • Celtic personal names
    • Arthur ‘high, noble’
    • Donald ‘proud chief
    • Mac ‘son of’ ( Scottish )
    • O’ ‘son of’ ( Irish ) O’Connor
    • Breton through French: bijou, dolmen , menhir.
    • Celtic before Gaelic, Welsh , Breton, and Cornish, and through Latin, French, and Old English: ambassador/embassy, bannock, bard, bracket, breeches, car/ carry / career /carriage/cargo/ carpenter / charge , crag, druid, minion, peat, piece , vassal/valet/varlet.
    • Cornish: porbeagle, wrasse.
    • Gaelic, general: bog, cairn, clarsach, ceilidh, coronach, crag, crannog, gab/gob, galore , skene, usquebaugh/whisk(e)y; Irish: banshee, blarney , brogue, colleen, hooligan, leprechaun , lough, macushla, mavourneen, poteen, shamrock, shebeen, shillelagh, smithereens, spalpeen, Tory ; Scottish: caber, cailleach, cairngorm, clachan, clan, claymore, corrie, glen, loch, lochan, pibroch, plaid, ptarmigan, slogan, sporran, strath, trews, trousers.
    • Welsh: bug, coracle, corgi, cromlech, cwm, eisteddfod, flannel, flummery

  • Scandinavian borrowings
    1000 (2000) borrowings.
    • Closed class words
      • They, them , their, fro
    • Everyday words:
    • Law terms :
      • Law, thrall
    • Place names
      • by – Derby, Whitby. –beck – Troutbeck (trout brook ). –thorp(e),
    • Icelandic:
      • auk, eider, geyser, saga .
    • Norse:
      • anger , balderdash, bing , bleak, blether, blink, bloom , blunder, blur , call, clamber, creek, crook, die, dirt, dowdy, doze, dregs, egg, fellow, flat, flaunt, flaw, fleck, flimsy, gasp, gaunt, gaze, girth, glint, glitter, gloat, happen , harsh, inkling, kick, kilt, law, leg, loan , meek, midden, muck, muggy, nasty, nudge, oaf, odd, raise, root , scalp, scant, scowl, seat , skerry, skewer, skid , skill, skin, skull, sky, sniff, snub, squall, squeal, take, they, thrall, thrift, thrust, ugly, vole, want, weak , window.
    • Norwegian :
    • Swedish:
      • glogg, ombudsman, smorgasbord, tungsten .

  • French borrowings
    • Administration, law, culture, fashion , religion
    • Grades of Hierarchy
      • baron , count , countess, duke, duchess, page, marquise, prince
    • Leisure and pastimes
      • cards, chess , the chase, conversation, dice , dance , leisure, recreation, tournament, sport
    • Culinary
      • veal, beef, mutton, venison, brawn, pork , ham, gammon, roast, boil , broil, fry
    • From modern French:
      • aperitif/apéritif, apresski/après-ski, avant -garde, bidet, bourgeois(ie), brasserie, brassiere/brassière, cafe/café, camouflage, canard, chateau /château, chef, chevalier , coup de grace /grâce, coup'etat/état, croissant, cuisine , debacle/débacle/débâcle, debut/début, dessert , elite/élite, esprit de corps , etiquette, fiance(e)/fiancé(e), fricassee/fricassée, frisson, garage, gourmand, gourmet, hors d'oeuvre, hotel , joie de vivre, liaison, limousine, lingerie, marionette, morale, nee/née, objet d'art, parole , pastiche, patisserie/pâtisserie, petite, pirouette, prestige, regime/régime, risque/risqué, silhouette, souvenir, toilette, vignette, voyeur,

  • Spanish borrowings
    • War
      • Armada, flotilla, renegade, comrade, don, vigilante, barricade, grenade,
    • Random
    • Mediated Native American words
      • Cigar, cocoa, chocolate , chilli , tomato, cannibal, canoe , maize, potato, avocado, tamale, tobacco
    • 20th century
      • Burrito, bongo , taco, sangria, sangria, cha-cha, rumba , mambo, fajita, margarita
    • Informal slang
      • Cojones, el cheapo
    • Adapted
      • Alligator, barricade, cask, cedilla, galleon, grenade, hoosegow, lariat, ranch, renegade, sherry, stampede, stevedore, vamoose;
    • Direct
      • Adobe , armada, armadillo, borracho, bravado, chili, chinchilla, embargo, guerrilla, hacienda, mosquito, mulatto, negro, peccadillo, pinto, pronto, sarsaparilla, silo, sombrero, vigilante

  • Italian borrowings

  • Dutch borrowings
    • Nautical terms
      • Boom, caboose, buoy, skipper, yacht, dock , cruise, freight,
    • Weaving
      • Spool, kink
    • Art
    • Random
      • Isinglass, dollar, brandy , gin, tattoo , rover, buckwheat, wagon, walrus, boss, cookie , coleslaw,
    • New York place names
      • The Bronx – Jonas Bronck
      • Brooklyn – Breukelyn
      • Coney Island – rabbit island

  • Borrowings from Asian languages
    • Indian: Bungalow, curry, coolie, dinghy, dungaree, ghee, gymkhana, lakh, loot , paisa, Raj, samosa, shampoo, tandoori, tom-tom, wallah.
    • Javanese: bantam, batik, gamelan , junk.
    • Malay: amok, bamboo, caddy, camphor, cassowary, cockatoo, dugong, durian , gecko, gingham, gong, kampong/compound, kapok , kris, lory , mangosteen, orang-utan, paddy , pangolin, rattan, sago, sarong.
    • Sanskrit through various languages: ashram, avatar , banya, banyan, beryl, brahmin, carmine, cheetah, chintz, chutney, crimson, juggernaut, jungle, jute , lacquer, mandarin , palanquin, pundit, sapphire, sugar , suttee; more or less direct: ahimsa, asana, ashrama, atman , avatar, bodhisattva , brahmin, Buddha , chakra, guru , hatha yoga , karma, lingam, maharaja(h), mahatma , mantra, Maya, nirvana, raja(h), rani/ranee, satyagraha, sutra , swastika, yantra, yoga, yogasana
    • Tagalog: boondock, ylang-ylang.
    • Chinese languages: china, chin -chin, chopsticks, chopsuey, chow chow, chow mein, dim sum, fan-tan, feng shui, ginseng, gung-ho, kaolin, ketchup/catsup, kowtow, kung fu, lychee, loquat, mahjong, pekoe, sampan, tai chi, taipan , Tao, tea, yang, yen, yin.
    • Japanese : aikido, banzai, bonsai, bushido, futon, geisha , haiku, hara-kiri, judo , jujitsu, Kabuki , kamikaze, kimono , koan, mikado, sake, samisen, samurai, sayonara, Shinto, shogun, soy(a), sushi , teriyaki, tofu , tycoon, yen, Zen
    • Arabic: artichoke, alcohol , sugar, camel, alchemy, algebra , elixir,


  • Etymological doublets
    • Two (or more) words derived from the same source, but having a different meaning .
        • Fashion/faction
    • Dialect based :
        • Road /raid
        • Seek/beseech
    • Old English, Old Norse
    • Anglo Norman, French
        • Guarantee, warranty, quaranty
    • Latin/Greek, French
    • French, French
        • Genteel/gentle
        • Dragon /dragoon

  • Folk etymology
    • Change in a word or phrase over time resulting from the replacement of an unfamiliar form by a more familiar one. Unanalyzable borrowings from foreign languages, like asparagus, or old compounds such as samblind which have lost their iconic motivation ( since one or more of the morphemes making them up, like sam-, which meant "semi-", has become obscure) are reanalyzed in a more or less semantically plausible way, yielding , in these examples , sparrow grass and sandblind.
      • Foreign words
        • Cucaracha – cockroach
      • One part of the word becoming obsolete
        • Isle- land – island
        • Samblind – sandblind

  • Archaisms
    • Use of a form of speech or writing which is no longer current or that is currently only within a few specific contexts. Form or use of a form which is obsolete or recognizably belongs to an older state of a language. (thou, thee, whence, whilst)

  • Neologisms
    • Newly coined words or expressions , which are in the process of entering common use.
      • Selfie, fauxhawk, vape , Tebowing

  • Affixation
    • Affixation is the process whereby an affix is attached to a base , which may be simple (as in full , the base to which ness is attached to yield fullness), or complex (like meditate, the base to which pre- is attached to yield premeditate).
    • Affixes can be bound before, inside and after the base of the word
    • Productive vs Unproductive affixes - Productive refers to an affix which is active in the language; it is used by writers today to create new words
    • 60 % of affixes have been borrowed, 40 % are native
      • Deodorize
        • De – reversing prefix
        • Odor – base 1)free – can be separate words 2)bound – can’t occur separately
        • -ize – verb forming suffix
        • Deodorization + - ation – suffix

  • Prefixes
    • A prefix is an affix that precedes its base. An element placed at the beginning of a word to adjust or qualify its meaning.
      • De-, un-, mis-, re-, etc
    • In english all prefixes are derivational, thus creating new lexemes instead of inflected forms of words.

  • Suffixes
    • A suffix is an affix that follows its base. An element placed at the end of a word to form a derivative, such as –ation, -fy, -ing, frequently one that converts the stem into another part of speech. While the prefixes do not change anything in the pronunciation of shape of the base words, the suffixes have such an effect . They lead either to the deletion of material at the end of the base or to a different stress pattern
    • Adjectival
      • Relational - to relate the noun the adjective qualifies to the base word of the derived adjective
        • Algebraic, colonial, theoretical
      • Qualitative - express more specific concepts
        • Grammatical
      • Some relational adjectives can adopt qualitative meanings.
        • grammatical, which has a relational meaning ‘having to do with grammar ’ in the sentence she is a grammatical genius, but which also has a qualitative sense ‘conforming to the rules of grammar,’ as in This is a grammatical sentence.
      • ed – having X/being provided with X – broad - minded , pig-headed, bearded, bigoted, quick -witted
      • ish – somewhat X/vaguely X – can attach to adjectives, numerals and syntactic phrases, nouns, : greenish, fiveish, out-of-the-wayish, James-Deanish,
      • less without X – senseless, pennyless, homeless
      • like similar to X lifelike, warlike, coward-like,
      • ly in the manner of X/like an X denoting persons – fatherly, brotherly or denoting temporal concepts or directions monthly, yearly, easterly, southerly
      • some characterized by being as X, productive of X, apt to X – wholesome, fulsome, cuddlesome, fearsome, handsome , tiresome, cumbersome
      • en – of the nature of X earthen, woollen, wooden. Non-productive - archaic
    • Adverb forming suffixes are only native
      • -ly – deadjectival suffix – firstly, fully, angrily, shortly, hardly, dryly (NB difference in meaning)
      • -long – lasting - Daylong, life-long, headlong
      • - ward (s) – towards – homeward, onward, eastward, backwards, inwards
      • -wise – in the manner of X/like X or spatial arrangement or concerning X – likewise, sarongwise, lengthwise, foodwise, moneywise
    • Nominal suffixes are often employed to derive abstract nouns from verbs, adjectives, and nouns. Such abstract nouns can denote actions , results of activities , or other related concepts, but also properties, qualities , and the like.
      • Agent/doer
        • -erastrologer, sixth -former, painter , player, hatter, whaler
        • or doctor , solicitor, governor, tremor, bachellor, manor, mirror ,
        • eer – mutineer, profiteer, mountaineer
        • ier – collier, cashier, lawyer
        • ant – pendant , deodorant, assistant
        • ent – president , superintendent, student
        • ee – lessee, employee , refugee, escapee, devotee, absentee
        • ist – Marxist, communist, idealist , economist, perfectionist, racist, Buddhist
      • To form words of feminine gender
        • -en – vixen
        • -ess – princess, actress, seamstress, goddess, lioness, wife of ambassadress, mayoress,
        • -ine – heroine,
      • Diminuatives
        • -y - nicknames shorty, Johnny , Mummy, doggy
        • -ie – birdie, doggie or independent formations – bookie, movie
        • -en – maiden, chicken (not productive)
        • - ling – darling, sibling, gosling, duckling,
        • -kin – napkin
        • -ock – buttock, hillock, bullock
        • -et – bullet, pallet, tablet, cigarette , kitchenette, balconette, suffragette,
      • To form abstract nouns
      • Romance
        • -age – suffrage, passage, baggage, carriage, vicarage, village, homage, marriage
        • - ment – detainment, banishment, embodiment, excitement , ligament, treatment, ornament
        • - mony – matrimony, testimony , ceremony, sanctimony, alimony
        • - tude – longitude, latitude, fortitude, solitude
      • Greek
        • -ism – criticism, organism, barbarism, racism, sexism , fascism, colloquialism
    • Verb forming
      • There are four suffixes which derive verbs from other categories (mostly adjectives and nouns), -ate, -en, -ify, and –ize.
        • -ate
        • -en
        • -ify
        • -ise/ize

  • Infixes
    An infix is an affix that is inserted inside its base. They are rare in English and rather phonological than morphological phenomena. English has a process of infixation of certain words, but no bound morphemes qualify for an infix status.
    • Narc-o-logy
    • Calc -i-ferous
    • Kanga­-bloody-roo

  • Combining forms
    A combining form can either be a prefix or a suffix, the difference is that while prefixes and suffixes only modify an existing meaning, the combining form adds a layer of extra meaning to the word, e.g.
    • bio- (life, living ) biochemistry
    • -cide ( killing ) pesticide
    • Mal- (bad) – maladjusted, malodorous
    • -graphy (writing) – biography , cartography

  • Back - formation
    The process of creating a new lexeme(word) usually by removing actual or supposed affixes. A derivation in reverse.
    • Adsorp tion – adsorb
    • Babysitter – babysit
    • Television – televise
    • Bartender – bartend

  • Alphabetisms, initialisms, acronyms
    Alphabetisms function as nouns and adjectives and are formed of letters of the alphabet.
    • Initialisms are alphabetisms, where the initial letters of a phrase are taken to replace the phrase. All the letters are pronounced as a sequence.
      • FAQ, BBC, UN, MC (emcee), PR, CPR, DUI, FBI, CIA, WHO.
    • Acronyms are pronounced according to grapheme-phoneme conversion rules. They function as regular words and can take plurals.
      • AWOL – absent without official leave, TWOC – taken without owners consent, AIDS, NATO , Scuba – self-contained underwater breathing apparatus,, SIM – subscriber identification module

  • Clippings, fore clippings, back clippings, ambiclippings
    Clipping is a word-formation process during which a word is reduced to a certain part of it while retaining the original meaning. Also known as shortening or truncation. Clipping creates lexemes with the same meaning, but different stylistic value . Clippings are usually monosyllabic and might have homonyms. Clipped forms are usually informal.
      • Back-clippings – the most common type of clipping, where the first part of the word remains, and the end is cut off.
    • Crocodile – croc
    • Doctor/ document – doc
    • Decaffeinated – decaf
    • Popular music – pop
    • Public house - pub
      • Fore-clippings – the front part of the word is reduced and the ending is the new word


      • Ambi -clippings – the middle part is retained and the rest is cut off.
    • Influenza – flu
    • Refrigerator – fridge

  • Blends
    Blends (aka portmanteau words) are lexemes that are formed from parts of two (or more, rarely) words. The parts which remain are chosen without regards to the original morphs.
    • Type 1 – existing compounds which are shortened to form new words
    • Type 2 – the full versions of the parts are not compounds. Denote entities which share properties of both the elements .

      • Boat + hotel – boatel
      • Breakfast + lunch – brunch
      • Channel + tunnel – chunnel
      • Tiger + lion – liger
      • Fanzine
      • Bromance
      • Smoke + fog – smog
      • Spanish + English - spanglish

    • Loan blends – words that are composed of parts of different languages (native and foreign element)
      • Karaoke (Japanese – kara (empty) + okesutora (orchestra))
      • Monolingual (Greek prefix, Latin root)

  • Clipped compounds
    Clippings may be compounded with each other to form clipped compounds.
    • Kids ’ video – kidvid
    • Slow motion - slomo
    The term also refers to compounds which have just one of the elements clipped. First part of both of the words is represented in the new word (which differentiates them from blends).
    • Sitcom – situational comedy (clipped compound)
    • Monergy – money energy (blend)
    • Op art – optical art (one of the elements clipped)
    • Autochanger – automatic record changer
    Sometimes suffixes are added, which make the words longer again .

  • Conversion
    Conversion, also known as reclassification, zero derivation or functional shift, is a phenomenon, where a word, without adding any affixes, is being used in a different word class. Conversion is productive in English.
    • Noun to verb
      • Bottle, pot, highlight, fingerprint, holiday , nuke, friend (defriend, unfriend), skyrocket, trash talk , emcee
    • Verb to noun
    • Adjective to verb
    • Past participle to adjective
      • Broke, drunk,
    • Phrasal verb to noun
      • Breakdown, break-in, break-off, breakthrough, setback, setup,
    • Closed class words
      • The ins and outs
      • The whys and wherefores
    • Affixes
      • Ologies, isms and ists
    • Whole phrases
      • Holier-than-thou attitude

  • Compounds
    Compounds are formed by joining two or more root morphemes or combining forms into a single lexeme. Compounding is a word-formation process in which two or more simple words are joined to a new word with a single meaning.
    • Compound nouns – coffee pot, airmail, highway, coffee table,
    • Compound adjectives – sky- blue , lead-free, machine -readable, sugarfree
    • Compound verbs – dry- clean , carbon - copy ,
    • Compound prepositions – onto, into, unto

  • Solid , hyphenated, and open compounds
    The common rule is to use as few hyphens has possible. The US English generally prefers the parts of the compound to be written together, whereas British English prefers them to be separate.
    • Solid
      • Teapot, blackbird
    • Hyphenated
      • Glass-making, muddle-headed, blue-haired
    • Open

  • Endocentric and exocentric compounds
    • Endocentric compounds are the kind whose distribution is the same as that of its constituents. They are more common in the English language. They have the same syntactic function as one of the constituents.
      • Cold water, greenhouse, skyrocket, trash talk,
    • Exocentric compounds are the kind whose distribution is not the same as that of any of its constituents. They don’t have the same syntactic function as any of their constituents.
      • Redcap, paleface, bittersweet (noun)

  • Meaning change
    Meaning change or semantic shift is a process of a word’s meaning taking place over time. There is a general tendency for words to develop new meanings and to relinquish other meanings over time. Much of this change occurs not in isolation but in relation to other words whose meanings are changing in other ways . Meat once meant ‘food in general’ while flesh had a wider coverage than at present, taking in both living flesh and dead flesh as food. Individually considered , each word has contracted its field of reference , but taking them together it becomes clear that a certain reclassification has taken place. Collide, once used mainly of pairs of trains and ships in motion, has expanded its scope , merely as a result of technological change, so as to refer to motor vehicles and aircraft. With this momentum it has been able to achieve generalization not only to the encounter of almost any objects whose paths might cross (e.g. pedestrians, sub-atomic particles , etc.) but also to the meeting of a moving object with a static one (e.g. a car colliding with a tree).
  • Metaphor and metonymy
    • Metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable . Metaphors are based on resemblance. Dead metaphors are metaphors which are no longer figurative ( flower -bed, blind corner)

    Machinery
    • To tighten the screws on the economy
    • The economy is overheating
    • To fine- tune inflation
    • The monetary lever has rusted
    Health
    • Symptoms of an arthritic labour market
    • The company will have to slim down
    • The company is slowly recovering
    • To prescribe the right economic remedy

    War
    • To invade weaker markets
    • The right strategy to penetrate the Russian Market
    Nature/ plants /gardening
    • To get to the roots of a thorny problem
    • The company will prune some of its branches
    • A flourishing company

    • Metonym is a figure of speech in which a word or expression normally or strictly used of one thing is used of something physically or otherwise associated with it: e.g. the Pentagon (strictly a building ) when used of the military inhabiting it. This may lead to metonymic change of meaning: e.g. the sense of bureau changed successively from cloth used to cover desks, first to desk itself, then to agency etc. ( working from a desk). Metonymy is based on actual/literal association between the two components .
      • White- collar , blue-collar, redcap, paleface,
      • Container for contained
        • The kettle ’s boiling, room 101 wants breakfast, the car behind us decided to stop
      • Represented entity for representative
        • Greece won the European Championship, the government will announce the new taxes
      • Whole for part
      • Part for whole
        • There are too many mouths to feed , there were too many eyes , I saw many new faces last night
      • Place for institution
        • The White House declined comments, Hollywood is releasing numerous movies
      • Author for the work
      • Place for the event
        • Watergate is a warning to everyone, Do we have another Vietnam in our hands ?
      • An object for the user

  • Meaning restriction and extension.
    • Meaning restriction (narrowing, specialization) is a change by which the meaning of a word is narrowed by the addition of a feature or features that were not previously part of it: e.g. that by which deer, formerly a word for ‘ animal ’ in general, came to denote one specific kind of animal. (Also meat)
    • Meaning extension (widening, generalization) - Enlargement of the class of entities that a word denotes: e.g. the meaning of bird, formerly ‘young bird’, was extended , in the early history of English, to mean ‘bird’ in general. Also called ‘extension of meaning’: but extensions that involve the simple loss of a restriction (like the restriction to birds that are young) might usefully be distinguished from those by which new senses will be added. Thing, box, derrick .

  • Meaning degradation and elevation
    • Meaning degradation is a process by which words of good origin fall into ill reputation or non-affective words come to be used in derogatory sense. Many words which were once names for the common people in the Middle- Ages have taken on bad meanings. A boor was merely a 'peasant' and has now degraded to a 'rude, ill-mannered person '.  

    Word       Old Meaning       Degraded Meaning 
    silly      happy           foolish 
    knave       boy            dishonest person 
    lewd      ignorant           lecherous 
    criticize     appraise           find fault with 
    lust       pleasure          sexual desire 
    villain      worker at a villa       wicked person/scoundrel 
    • Meaning elevation – refers to the process by which words rise from humble beginnings to positions of importance . Some words early in their history signified something quite low or humble, but changed as time went by to designate something agreeable or pleasant. Take a common term nice for example. Its original meaning was 'ignorant', then changed to 'foolish' and now elevated to mean 'delightful, pleasant'.

    Word      Old Meaning        Elevated Meaning 
    angel      messenger        messenger of God 
    knight        servant           rank below baronet 
    earl       man             count 
    governor     pilot              head of a state 
    fond        foolish           affectionate       
    minister     servant           head of a ministry 
  • Monosemy
    • A word having only one possible meaning.
    • It is very rare in most vocabularies, but preferred in the case of technological terminology.
      • Quinsy, atrophy, ozone

  • Polysemy
    • Coexistence of many possible meanings for a word or a phrase.
    • Short commonplace words have the most meanings (and also the most collocations with them) – set, make, take etc

  • Homonyms
    • Each of two or more words having the same spelling or pronunciation, but different origin and meaning. Accidental similarity.
    • Grammatical homonyms
      • Past tense and past participle, present participle, gerund , verbal noun
    • Lexico-grammatical homonyms
      • Coincide of words representing different word classes .
        • Love – noun/verb
      • Same word class, but different use
        • Found – past tense and participle of find, to found
    • Full homonyms – all forms coincide
    • Partial homonyms – some forms coincide

  • Homophones
    • One or more words that are identical in sound but have a different spelling and meaning.
      • beer/ bier , there/their/they're.
    • The occurrence of homophones is largely a matter of historical chance , in which words with distinct meanings come to coincide phonologically: byre a cowshed, buyer one who buys.
    • Words may be homophones in one variety of English but not another: father/farther and for/four are homophonous in RP, but not in AmE and ScoE; wails/ Wales are general homophones; wails/Wales/ whales are homophones for many, but not in IrE and ScoE. Whether/whither are homophones in Scotland, but not whether/ weather , which are homophones in England.

  • Homographs
    • A kind of homonym, two or more words which are spelled the same, but differ in origin, meaning and pronunciation/stress
      • Minutetiny vs minute – 60 sec
      • Bear – noun vs bear – verb
      • Entrance, complex
  • Synonyms
    • A language specific phenomenon where different words share the same meaning.
    • Absolute synonymy – absolute sameness of all aspects of meaning. Very rare
    • Propositional synonymy – the words don’t change the meaning of the sentence difference in style/discourse
      • Start/commence,
      • Cross varietal synonymy – courgette/zucchini, tin/can, soda/pop
    • Near synonymy
      • Non-denotational differences (connotational register , style)
        • Cognitive
      • Denotational differences – a matter of degree
      • Plesionyms - slight differences in denotational meaning, but fuzzy boundaries between degrees
        • Misty/foggy
  • Opposites aka antonyms
    • In a broad sense the opposite meaning/denotations to a word
    • In a narrow sense the contrary adjectives
    • There are four main types of opposites
    • Contrary/gradable antonyms
      • Denote opposite poles on a property scale , which has a neutral middle ground
      • Polarity – one term of a binary opposition is described as positive and the other negative . This is most obvious when one of the terms carries a negative affix – happy – unhappy, possible – impossible etc
        • Logical polarity – two negatives make a positive. True/ False . It’s false that it’s false – it’s true
        • Quantity polarity – one of the terms denotes more of something – long/short, old/young
        • Evaluative polarity – positive term expresses approval and negative disapproval good/bad, polite /rude
    • Complementary antonyms – either or
      • Closed/open, dead/ alive , true/false, pregnant/not pregnant
      • Non-gradable complementary antonyms
        • True/false, alive/dead
      • Gradable complementary antonyms have a privative member denoting the absence/presence of something
        • Clean/dirty – absence/presence of dirt
        • Dry/moist – absence/presence of moisture
      • Reversive complementary antonyms - denote a change in opposite directions
      • Interactive CA – stimulus-response type
        • Command/obey/disobey
        • Tempt/yield/ resist
      • Satisfactive CA – one term denotes an attempt to do sth and the other success
      • Counteractive CA - the first term denotes an aggressive action , the members of the complementary pair represent an active and passive response to the original counteraction
        • Attack/defend/ submit
        • Punch/parry/take
    • Converse (relational) antonyms
      • Wife/husband, borrow/lend, buy/sell, warmer/cooler
    • Reversives – movement or change in opposite directions/ states
      • Heat /cool, rise/fall, ascend/descend, advance/retreat/, improve/deteriorate

  • Hyponyms
    • A word of more specific meaning than a general or superordinate term applicable to it.
      • Spoon, fork, knife are hyponyms for cutlery
      • Chair , desk, cupboard are hyponyms for furniture
      • Spaniel, retriever, dachshund arey hyponyms for dogs
    • Hyponyms that belong under the same hypernym are called co-hyponyms
    • The same word can be a hyponym for different hypernyms

  • Hypernyms (hyperonyms)
    • A word with a broad meaning constituting a category /superordinate into which which more specific meanings fall.
      • Colour is a hypernym for red, blue, black etc
      • Furniture is a hypernym for chair, desk, cupboard etc

  • Meronyms
    • A term which denotes a part of something
    • Meronyms have subtypes

  • Holonyms
    • A term (word or phrase), which denotes a whole in relation to a part of something.
    • Tree is a holonym of branch, trunk, leaves
    • Body is a holonym of arms, legs , head, face, ass

  • Collocations
    • The (habitual) occurrence of two or more words within a short space /next to each other in a text or speech with a frequency greater than chance. The way words combine in a language to produce natural sounding speech and writing.
    • Grammatical collocations consist of:
    • Lexical collocations don’t have a dominant word, instead they have structures such as:
      • verb + noun
      • adjective + noun
      • noun + verb
      • noun + noun
      • adverb + adjective
      • adverb + verb
    • Collocations are categorized:
      • Weak collocations – see a movie, take a bath , extremely complicated
      • Medium-strength collocations – see a doctor/consult a doctor, highly intelligent,
      • Strong and restricted collocations – burning ambition, see reason , blindingly obvious, blatantly obvious
    • Forming collocations:

    • adjective + noun
    bright / harsh / intense / strong light
    • quantifier + noun
    a beam / ray of light
    • verb + noun
    cast / emit / give / provide / shed light
    • noun + verb
    light gleams / glows / shines
    • noun + noun
    A light source
    • preposition + noun
    by the light of the moon
    • noun + preposition
    the light from the window
    • adverb + verb
    choose carefully
    • verb + verb
    be free to choose
    • verb + preposition
    choose between two things
    • verb + adjective
    Make / keep / declare sth safe
    • adverb + adjective
    perfectly / not entirely / environmentally safe
    • adjective + preposition
    Safe from attack
    the speed of light, pick and choose, safe and sound, social networking site
  • Idioms
    • A group of words having a meaning not deducible from the individual words. A set expression where two or more words are syntactically related but with a meaning like that of a single lexical unit .
    • Non-compositional meanings – can’t be predicted from the meanings of its semantical components
    • They are unique to languages – jump the gun
    • Can’t be passivized – the gun was jumped, the bucket was kicked
      • BUT: his leg was pulled continuously by the other boys
    • Can’t be turned into nouns – gun-jumping
    • Three categories of idioms can be distinguished
      • Pure – pull sb’s leg, kick the bucket,
      • Semiliteral – fat chance, take steps, be a stepping stone , jump the gun
      • Literal – in sum, throw away, according to
    • Elements are not separately modifiable without the loss of the idiomatic meaning. The whole idiom can be modified as a unit.
      • She pulled her brother ’s left leg, she pulled her brother’s leg mercilessly
    • Elements don’t coordinate with genuine semantic constituents
      • She pulled and twisted her brother’s leg
    • Elements can’t take contrastive stress
      • It was her brother’s leg that she pulled
    • Elements can’t be referred back to anaphorically
      • She pulled his brother’s leg, Jon pulled it too
    • Elements can’t be substituted for their synonyms or near synonyms
    • Lexemic idioms – phrasal verbs (get away with, work out etc)
    • Phraseological idioms – frozen forms
    • Sayings and proverbs
      • Don’t wash your dirty linen in public, don’t count your chicken before they’re hatched.

  • Syntactic freezes (irreversible binomials, trinomials)
    • Syntactic freezes aka irreversible idioms are multi -word expressions, whose order can’t be changed.
      • Binomial – two-part freeze
        • Bits and pieces, spick and span , thick and thin , safe and sound
      • Trinomial – three-part freeze
    • There are semantic rules for the order of words:
      • Proximal deictics precede distal deictics this and that, here and there
      • Animates precede inanimates people and things, man-machine interaction
      • Humans precede other animates man or beast
      • Adults precede non-adults father and son; men, women , and children
      • Males precede females man and woman, Adam and Eve, brother and sister
    • Short-long principle – monosyllable or polysyllable always comes first
      • bits and pieces
    • Short monophtong – long vowel /diphtong
    • Fewer initial consonants – more initial consonants
      • long and strong,
    • Less obstruent initial consonant – more obstruent initial consonant
      • Willy nilly, wear and tear
    • Higher vowel – lower vowel
      • Zig-zag, click-clack, tick-tock, obladi-oblada
    • Fewer final consonants – more final consonants
      • Odds and ends, safe and sound,
    • More obstruent single final consonant – less obstruent single final consonant
      • Kith and kin, thick and thin, push and pull

  • Phrasal verbs
    • Idiomatic phrases consisting of a verb and a particle or two particles (phrasal prepositional verb)
    • The particles can be
      • Adverb – drop by, stop by, break down
      • Preposition – deal with, see to,
      • Adverb + preposition – drop in on, look down on
    • Phrasal verbs can be
      • Transitive – can be separated in a sentence
      • Intransitive – can’t be separated and can’t take a direct object
      • Both transitive and intransitive
        • Can have a difference in meaning
    • Very frequent, especially in spoken language. Pose problems for foreign learners as the meaning is often unpredictable.

  • Lexical fields
    • Sets of semantically related lexical items
    • Sets of words grouped by meaning referring to a specific subject .
    • Examples:
      • Colour terms: blue, red, yellow etc
      • Sheep : lamb, ewe, ram
      • Human: man, woman, child

  • Componential analysis
    Componential analysis is analysing words in the terms of smaller sense components. A sense is a set of semantic features. The analysis of words through structured sets of semantic features, which are given as “present”, “absent” or “indifferent with reference to feature”.
    • man = [+ male ], [+ mature] or woman = [– male], [+ mature] or boy = [+ male], [– mature] or girl = [– male] [– mature] or child = [+/– male] [– mature].
    • In other words, the word girl can have three basic factors (or semantic properties): human, young, and female . Another example, being edible is an important factor by which plants may be distinguished from one another. To summarize, one word can have basic underlying meanings that are well established depending on the cultural context . It is crucial to understand these underlying meanings in order to fully understand any language and culture.

  • Corpus
    • A corpus is a systematic collection of texts which documents the usage features of a language or language variety.
    • Specialized or general
    • Monitor corpus – an open ended corpus of texts, which allows the addition or subtraction of material, taking into account the progress of language change.
    • Parallel corporainclude the same texts in at least two languages that have either been directly translated or produced for the same use.
    • Learner corpora – collection of texts by learners of language
    • Reference corpus – a large corpus, often used to determine language patterns which are general across a language.
    • British National Corpus, Estonian – French Parallel corpus

  • Concordance line
    • A concordance line is an alphabetical list of principal words used in a body of text with their immediate contexts. They are frequently used in linguistics for various vocabulary-related treatises.

  • KWIC
    • Key Word in Context (acronym) is the most common format for concordance lines. Concordance is an alphabetical list of the principal words used in a body of text with their immediate contexts. The term was coined by H.P Luhn
    • A database search in which the keyword is shown highlighted in the middle of the display , with the text forming its context on either side.

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