Base-reducing word formations

Base-reducing word formations

1. Abbreviation

   • Is used to denote both the rule-free process of transforming long words into (goups of) letter and outcome of this process
     • Shortening
     • Reduction to initials
     • acronomy
     • backronymy
     • alphanumeries

2. Clipping

   • 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

3. Back-formation

   • Denotes both, the lexical formations and its result and this practicehas been in use ever since
     • versus back-clipping

4. Lexical elipsis

   • The omission of an element of language for reassons associated with speech, theoric, grammar and punctutation
     • the first element in a system
     • the second element in a system

5. Contraction

   • 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

6. Ellison

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