LINGUIST 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dementia, Listicle, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

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Linguist 1aa3 lecture 4: creation of new words. Updates: clicker points, quiz, optex points will be uploaded later today. Goal: discover some of the ways that new words are derived in english. Affixation, compounding, combining sounds to make a new word. There aren"t the only ways, there are other ways too. Some examples of affixation: bingeable (adjective), spiralizer, hipsterdom, truther, all these words were added in 2017 or 2018, adding parts of a word to make it a new word. Compounding: facepalm, side-eye, time suck, first world problem, photobomb. Zero-derivation (a. k. a. conversion: exist in one category and moving it to another, sometimes there"s a related meaning, sometimes it changes, ghost (spirit versus not responding), sundown (sunset versus someone. Sundowning" has dementia and the symptoms are worse in the evening), feed, catfish: just converting the category. Acronyms (or initialisms: nsfw (not safe for work), evoo (extra virgin olive oil), nicu (natal intensive care unit), tl;dr (too long; didn"t read)

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