Name: Aleena Abid A2 Date: 28-07-20

Comparative Analysis
Graphology: how words look,writing forms,alphabets.

Grammar: rules of language,word order, meanings of word

Pragmantics: in what ways is language used in its social context

Semantics: meanings of words.

Archaism

Obsolete words

Lexis: all forms of vocab

Derivation of words

Coinage of new words

Neologism a newly invented word

Eponyms

Suffixes prefixes

Telescoping of words. Contraction of word

Blending of two words.

Borrowing of words from other languages

Neuter words. Neither male nor female

Inflection ed, s, es etc

Etymology history of words and their development

Broadening of words to include more terms

Narrowing of words

Prescriptivism and descriptivisism