Mapa conceptual de las disciplinas relacionadas a la Lexicología

BASE-CREATING WORD FORMATIONS

Lexical isolates

Can occur to listeners, interlocutors, or readers as awkward formations or lexical isolates

Native-sounding and native-looking lexemes which are created by persons in a well-determined way

Greek meaning "a thing that is said only once"

"Hapax legomenon"

Common words derived from proper names

Epomization

Refers to "the items recorded only once in an author's work, a literature work, a literary genre.

Assimilated coinages

Borrowed from classical languages with some extractions

Derivates of words, hybrid combinations

The great majority of their contributions are named, inspired by their or somebody else's names

Famous inventors and innovating professionalshave contributed for centuries with an overwhelming array of "things"

Incoeporating simple words,

Need for new words

Therefore, words creator have produced a wide diversity of coinages

Coining

Derived from the word "coin"

A place name

Beginning with the seventeenth century "coinage"

Toponyms

They born from the combination of foreign and native language.

Pay homage to personalities famoues for the services they have given to their own

community

By the creative human mind

Lexicology

Base-altering word formations

Metanalysis

Is a change in the way the elements in a phrase or sentence are interpreted and used

False analogy

Metathesis

Are syntagms which account for the lexical alterations that appear to be consequential to ministerpretationof already existing words

The process whereby segments are switch around the world

The word is used to denote an alteration

Deflection

Folk etymology

Is a popular but false notion of the origin of a world

Base-reducing word formations

Abbreviation

backronymy

Reduction to initials

Shortening

acronomy

alphanumeries

Clipping

Back-formation

Is used to denote both the rule-free process of transforming long words into (goups of) letter and outcome of this process

Used for another word formation based on the harmless shortening of an existing word, which enitials no change of meaning

apharesis

syncope

apocope

double clipping

Denotes both, the lexical formations and its result and this practicehas been in use ever since

versus back-clipping

Contraction

Lexical elipsis

The omission of an element of language for reassons associated with speech, theoric, grammar and punctutation

the second element in a system

the first element in a system

The English term "contraction" means the process of "drawing together" and its lexical result

In Lexicology to refer to those reductions which are often marked by an apostrophe

Ellison

It occurs in leximats and linguistic studies to denote "the omission or slurring (elding) of one or more vowels, consonants or syllabes