（1) A word once reserved for female persons in high places is generalised to refer to people of all levels in a society:

10. Changes in Meaning 11. American English

Contents 8. Word Meaning 9. Sense Relations

Contents 5. Word-Formation I: the Major Processes 6. Word-Formation: the Minor Processes 7. Motivation

1. Morphology In American English, a number of irregular verbs have become regularised, while remaining irregular in British English: a)In many instances, it is only the voicing of the past tense morpheme -(e)d which has been changed to regularise the verb:

Blending is a process of word formation by which word is created by combinin ag parts of other words. Words formed in this way are called blends. From morphological viewpoints, there are four types of blending:

Social meaning is that which a piece of language conveys about the social circumstances of its use. In part, we decode the social meaning of a text through our recognition of different dimensions and levels of style within the same language

Collocative meaning consists of the associations a word acquires on account of the meanings of words which tend to occur in its environment

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Conceptual Meaning Conceptual Meaning sometimes called denotative\ or cognitive\ meaning) is widely assumed to be the central factor in linguistic communication