Краткий курс лекций по лексикологии английского языка для студентов неязыковых вузов. Москалёва Е.В. - 19 стр.

            Archaisms remain in the language, but they are used as stylistic
            devices to express solemnity. Most of these words are lexical
            archaisms and they are stylistic synonyms of words which ousted
            them from the neutral style. Some of them are: steed /horse/,
            slay /kill/, behold /see/, perchance /perhaps/, woe /sorrow/ etc.
                   Sometimes a lexical archaism begins a new life, getting a
            new meaning, then the old meaning becomes a semantic
            archaism, e.g. fair in the meaning “beautiful” is a semantic
            archaism, but in the meaning “blond” it belongs to the neutral
            style.
                   Sometimes the root of the word remains and the affix is
            changed, then the old affix is considered to be a morphemic
            archaism, e.g. beauteous / ous was substituted by ful/, bepaint /be
            was dropped/, darksome / some was dropped, oft / en was added/
            etc.

                  IV. At the present moment English is developing very
            swiftly and there is so called “neology blowup”. R. Berchfield
            who worked at compiling a four-volume supplement to NED says
            that averagely 800 neologisms appear every year in Modern
            English. It has also become a language-giver recently, especially
            with the development of computerization. New words, as a rule,
            appear in speech of an individual person who wants to express his
            idea in some original way. This person is called “originator”. New
            lexical units are primarily used by university teachers, newspaper
            reporters, by those who are connected with mass media.
                  Neologisms can develop in three main ways: a lexical unit
            existing in the language can change its meaning to denote a new
            object or phenomenon. In such cases we have semantic
            neologisms, e.g. the word “umbrella” developed the meanings:
            “авиационное прикрытие”, “политическое прикрытие”. A new
            lexical unit can develop in the language to denote an object or
            phenomenon which already has some lexical unit to denote it. In
            such cases we have transnomination, e.g. the word “slum” was
            first substituted by the word “ghetto” then by the word group
            “inner town”. A new lexical unit can be introduced to denote a

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