Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Base-reducing word formations
- 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
- 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
- Back-formation
- Denotes both, the lexical formations and its result and this practicehas been in use ever since
- versus back-clipping
- 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
- 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
- Ellison
- It occurs in leximats and linguistic studies to denote "the omission or slurring (elding) of one or more vowels, consonants or syllabes