1. Kuiper and Allan Chapter 3.2
Vocabularies
Kuiper and Allan Chapter 3.2

2. Total vocabularies personal of a language active passive
size is hard to assess

3. Three ways of adding to the total vocabulary
borrowing
word formation
word ‘creation’

4. Adding to total vocab Borrowing a result of linguistic contact
Norse borrowing
e.g. egg
traffic direction
English to Maori
Maori to English

5. Adding to total vocab (contd)
Word formation
Compounding
Derivation
Conversion

6. 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