Mapa conceptual de las disciplinas relacionadas a la Lexicología

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• BASE-CREATING WORD FORMATIONS

• Lexical isolates

• Can occur to listeners, interlocutors, or readers as awkward formations or lexical isolates

• Native-sounding and native-looking lexemes which are created by persons in a well-determined way

• Greek meaning "a thing that is said only once"

• "Hapax legomenon"

• Common words derived from proper names

• Epomization

• Refers to "the items recorded only once in an author's work, a literature work, a literary genre.

• Assimilated coinages

• Borrowed from classical languages with some extractions

• Derivates of words, hybrid combinations

• The great majority of their contributions are named, inspired by their or somebody else's names

• Famous inventors and innovating professionalshave contributed for centuries with an overwhelming array of "things"

• Incoeporating simple words,

• Need for new words

• Therefore, words creator have produced a wide diversity of coinages

• Coining

• Derived from the word "coin"

• A place name

• Beginning with the seventeenth century "coinage"

• Toponyms

• They born from the combination of foreign and native language.

• Pay homage to personalities famoues for the services they have given to their own community

• By the creative human mind

• Lexicology

• Base-altering word formations

• Metanalysis

• Is a change in the way the elements in a phrase or sentence are interpreted and used

• False analogy

• Metathesis

• Are syntagms which account for the lexical alterations that appear to be consequential to ministerpretationof already existing words

• The process whereby segments are switch around the world

• The word is used to denote an alteration

• Deflection

• Folk etymology

• Is a popular but false notion of  the origin of a world 

• Base-reducing word formations

• Abbreviation

• backronymy  

• Reduction to initials  

• Shortening

• acronomy

• alphanumeries  

• Clipping

• Back-formation

• Is used to denote both the rule-free process of transforming long words into (goups of) letter and outcome of this process

• 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

• Denotes both, the lexical formations and its result and this practicehas been in use ever since

• versus back-clipping  

• Contraction

• Lexical elipsis

• The omission of an element of language for reassons associated with speech, theoric, grammar and punctutation

• the second element in a system  

• the first element in a system  

• 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