Kuiper and Allan Chapter 3.2 Vocabularies Kuiper and Allan Chapter 3.2
Total vocabularies personal of a language active passive size is hard to assess
Three ways of adding to the total vocabulary borrowing word formation word ‘creation’
Adding to total vocab Borrowing a result of linguistic contact Norse borrowing e.g. egg traffic direction English to Maori Maori to English
Adding to total vocab (contd) Word formation Compounding Derivation Conversion
Adding to total vocab (contd) Word ‘creation’, (more unusual word formation) blend e.g. avionics, smog acronyms e.g. unesco, Gestapo root creation e.g. Exxon echo words e.g. morepork, peewit, ruru, coining and lexicalisation