How a Language Changes
The writing system of a language
What is Graphology
The language in which Beowulf was written.
The general term for creating new words.
What is coinage?
The study of the origin of a word.
What is etymology?
Michael Halliday introduced this theory based on the belief that language changes due to the needs of its users.
What is Functional Theory?
the vocabulary of a language
What is lexis
The most famous English playwright
Who is Shakespeare?
The term used when the word for a new product is named for its inventor.
What is an eponym?
The process by which the meaning of a word becomes more negative.
What is pejoration?
What is Cultural Transmission Theory?
The order of words in a sentence
What is syntax?
The language in which The Canterbury Tales was written.
What is Middle English?
The term for the clipping of a long word or phrase to create a new, shorter word (babysitter to babysit).
What is backformation?
The process by which the meaning of a word changes to become more positive.
What is amelioration?
Hockett's theory based on the belief that the uneven use of spoken language is what leads to language change.
What is the Random Fluctuation Theory?
The part of a language concerned with letters and spelling
What is Orthography?
The man who wrote The Canterbury Tales.
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
The term for the process by which sounds of a word are replicated (chick-flick).
What is reduplication?
A person who believes that there is a specific set of rules which should govern the use of a language and should not change.
What is a prescriptivist?
Schmidt's model of language change by which a single disturbance or change is replicated like ripples from the centre of the disturbance.
What is 1,700?
The term when two parts of different words are combined to form a new word (hotel/motor = motel)
What is blending?
A person who believes that no use of language is incorrect and variations should be acknowledged.
What is a descriptivist?
The writer of the 1981 book Language Change: Progress or Decay.
Who is Jean Aitchison?