Article outline

• 5.1Introduction
• 5.2Process of lexicogenesis
• 5.3Types of semantic change
  • 5.3.1Transfer and splitting
  • 5.3.2Prototype theory, narrowing, widening and shifting
• 5.4Lexicogenesis and metaphor/metonymy
  • 5.4.1Applying our definitions of metaphor and metonymy to lexicogenesis
  • 5.4.2Forms of lexicogenesis in relation to metaphor and metonymy
    • 5.4.2.1Semantic-only change or lexical (preserving word-class and form)
    • 5.4.2.2Conversion (preserving form but changing word-class)
    • 5.4.2.3Suffixation (adding bound-morpheme to end of form,
      generally changing word-class)
    • 5.4.2.4Prefixation
    • 5.4.2.5Compounding
    • 5.4.2.6Idiomatisation
    • 5.4.2.7Blending, acronymy, initialisation and clipping
      (subtracting from form, preserving word-class)
    • 5.4.2.8Back-formation
• 5.5Summary