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20 relations: Accidental gap, Back-formation, Ben Schott, Cranberry morpheme, David McCord, Defective verb, False cognate, Fossilization (linguistics), Light poetry, Loanword, Morpheme, Nonce word, Old English, Old French, Opposite (semantics), Phoneme, Prefix, Suffix, Willard R. Espy, Word play.
Accidental gap
In linguistics an accidental gap, also known as a gap, accidental lexical gap, lexical gap, lacuna, or hole in the pattern, is a word or other form that does not exist in some language but which would be permitted by the grammatical rules of the language.
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Back-formation
In etymology, back-formation is the process of creating a new lexeme by removing actual or supposed affixes.
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Ben Schott
Ben Schott (born 26 May 1974) is a British writer, photographer, and author of the Schott's Miscellanies and Schott's Almanac series.
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Cranberry morpheme
In linguistic morphology, a cranberry morpheme (or fossilized term) is a type of bound morpheme that cannot be assigned an independent meaning or grammatical function, but nonetheless serves to distinguish one word from another.
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David McCord
David Thompson Watson McCord (December 15, 1897 New York CityApril 13, 1997) was an American poet and college fundraiser.
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Defective verb
In linguistics, a defective verb is a verb with an incomplete conjugation, or one which cannot be used in some other way as normal verbs can.
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False cognate
False cognates are pairs of words that seem to be cognates because of similar sounds and meaning, but have different etymologies; they can be within the same language or from different languages.
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Fossilization (linguistics)
In linguistic morphology, fossilization refers to two close notions.
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Light poetry
Light poetry, or light verse, is poetry that attempts to be humorous.
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Loanword
A loanword (also loan word or loan-word) is a word adopted from one language (the donor language) and incorporated into another language without translation.
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Morpheme
A morpheme is the smallest grammatical unit in a language.
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Nonce word
A nonce word (also called an occasionalism) is a lexeme created for a single occasion to solve an immediate problem of communication.
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Old English
Old English (Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.
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Old French
Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; Modern French: ancien français) was the language spoken in Northern France from the 8th century to the 14th century.
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Opposite (semantics)
In lexical semantics, opposites are words lying in an inherently incompatible binary relationship, like the opposite pairs big: small, long: short, and precede: follow.
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Phoneme
A phoneme is one of the units of sound (or gesture in the case of sign languages, see chereme) that distinguish one word from another in a particular language.
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Prefix
A prefix is an affix which is placed before the stem of a word.
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Suffix
In linguistics, a suffix (sometimes termed postfix) is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word.
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Willard R. Espy
Willard Richardson Espy (December 11, 1910February 20, 1999) was an American editor, philologist, writer, poet, and local historian.
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Word play
Word play or wordplay (also: play-on-words) is a literary technique and a form of wit in which words used become the main subject of the work, primarily for the purpose of intended effect or amusement.
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