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Neologisms Word ProductivitySet 4

1Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is the longest word in the English Language.

2What is the role of neologisms in language?

3Label the following definition: Let us use the word "grellow" to mean the color of things that are either green or yellow.Is this an enumerative definition, a definition by subclass, a lexical definition, a stipulative definition, a precising definition, or a theoretical definition?

4Words should only be added to the dictionary if .....

5What does BOLO stand for?

6What is a calque?

7Using the term "Kleenex" to refer to any brand of facial tissue is an example of genericization.

8What do we call a semantic shift undergone by words due to their referents coming up the social scale?

9The word WIG is a nonce word.

10The term checkmate is an alteration of what Persian phrase?

11How many types of coining of new words?