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Base-reducing word formations
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Mind Map on Base-reducing word formations, created by Christian Jiménez on 09/10/2021.
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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
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