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The English Lexicon - Coggle Diagram
The English Lexicon
Phraseology
Lexical collocations
Idioms
Discourse organizers
Binomials
Pragmatic idioms
Similes
Phraseological phenomena
Proverbs, commonplaces, quotations, slogans
Word formation processes
Initialism and Acronyms
Clipping
Conversion or Zero derivation
Blends
Affixation/derivation
Backformation
Compounding
Phraseological phenomena
Lexical collocations
Free
Restricted
Frozen
Idioms (binomials)
Discourse organizers
Similes
Social routines or pragmatic idioms
Proverbs (also slogan and quotations)
Words, culture and society
Political correctness
The race issue
Information technology
Linguistic sexism
War language
Lexis
Coinages
Loanwords
Word-formation processes
Shortening
Blending
Addition of neoclassical combining forms
Semantic shift
Compounding
Functional shift
Affixation
Mixed nature of English lexicon
Core: high-frequency Germanic words (usually monosyllabic)
Wider part: less frequently used words of classical or Roman origin (usually polysyllabic)
True and false friends Italian English
Problem, result, company, community, member, to include, to participate, to consider
Actually, finally, eventually, argument, factory, educated, lecture, library, magazine, to pretend