Language change

Terminology


Attitudes to language change
(prescriptivism vs. descriptivism)
(damp sponge syndrome, crumbling castle, infectious)


Reasons for language change
(technology, standardisation etc.)










Terminology
coinage/neologism - The deliberate creating of a new word. This is not a common process of word formation


borrowing/loan words - borrowing of words from other languages. words are either anglicised or they may retain their original spelling or phonology


compounding - words are combined together


clipping -


blending-


acronym-


initialism-


affixiation-


conversion or functional shift-


eponym-


back formation-


inkhorn terms-


broadening


narrowing


amelioration


pejoration


weakening


euphemism


polysemy-





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