Linguistics: lexicology and morphology
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- example of an infix
- feet
- example of a shortening
- jet (jet airplane)
- example of an acronym
- NASA
- example of an initialism
- TMC
- example of a blend
- smog
- example of back formation
- typewrite (from typewriter)
- conversion or functional shift
- "update" (can be a noun or verb)
- semantic shift
- computer mouse
- derivational morpheme
- changes meaning and lexical category of a word
- inflectional morpheme
- changes the form of the word