m Lexical Firsts: introduction of vocabulary words

m Idiomatic expressions

m Grammatical Conversions/anthimeria: changing

nouns into verbs, verbs into adjectives, connecting
words never used before, adding prefixes and suffixes

m Diverse Hyphenations
 In all of his work (the plays,
the sonnets and the narrative
poems) uses 17,677 different
words: Of those, 1,700 were
=

   - words
first used by Shakespeare.
For then the bold and coward, The wise and fool, the artist
and unread, The hard and soft, seem all Õ
 and kin. --


Õ

Õ


Whether I in any just term am Õ
 To love the Moor. --

 


If partially Õ
, or league'd in office, Thou dost deliver

more or less the truth, Thou art no soldier. --  



By the condensedly framed word Õ
 Shakespeare

expressess, in the first of the above three passages, 'united
by affinity;' in the second 'bound by any claim of affinity;'
and in the third 'swayed by any link of affinity.'
 Shakespeare framed the word "co-mart," to express 'joint
bargains,' 'compact made together,' in the same manner
that the words 'co-heiress,' 'co-partner,' &c., are formed,
and as he himself formed the word "co-mates" in the
following passage:
Now, my §Õ
and brothers in exile. -- 
 
 



For government, though high, and low, and lower, Put into
parts, doth keep in one consent, 
 in a full and
natural close, Like music. --   
!

By the one word "congreeing," Shakespeare expresses

'agreeing with itself, in all its parts.'

That, face to face and royal eye to eye, You have §  .
  "!

The single word "congreeted" expresses 'greeted each

other,' 'met together.
You are born To set a form upon that


, Which
he hath left so shapeless and so rude. -- #
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And that your love taught it this alchemy, To make of

monsters and things


 Such cherubins as your
sweet self resemble. -- & '

From the Latin word




, 'disordered,'
'confused,' Shakespeare framed the term "indigest,"
which he uses as a noun, in the first of the above
passages, to express 'a mass of confusion or disorder,' 'a
chaos or chaotic state'; and as an adjective, in the
second of the above passages, to express 'unformed,'
'shapeless.'
accommodation, aerial, amazement, apostrophe,
assassination, auspicious, baseless, bloody, bump,
castigate, changeful, clangor, control (noun),
countless, courtship, critic, critical, dexterously,
dishearten, dislocate, dwindle, eventful, exposure,
fitful, frugal, generous, gloomy, gnarled, hurry,
impartial, inauspicious, indistinguishable,
invulnerable, lapse, laughable, lonely, majestic,
misplaced, monumental, multitudinous, obscene,
palmy, perusal, pious, premeditated, radiance,
reliance, road, sanctimonious, seamy, sportive,
submerge, suspicious
Arch-heretique heauen-mouing
baby-eyes ill-tuned
bare-pickt kindred-action
Basilico-like ore-lookǯd
break-vow pale-visagǯd
Canker-sorrow pell-mell
faire-play
giant-world
halfe-blowne
naked truth brave new world
too much of a good thing crack of doom
wear oneǯs heart on oneǯs sleeve devil incarnate
break the ice full circle
star-crossed lovers heart of gold
jealousy is the green-eyed monster
own flesh and blood forever and a day
breathe oneǯs last for goodness sake
catch a cold
itǯs Greek to me
love is blind
brevity is the soul of the wit
come what come may
dead as a doornail
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_influence#Infl
uence_on_the_English_language_2

http://www.theatrehistory.com/british/shakespeare031b.html

http://www.pathguy.com/shakeswo.htm

Linguistics Encyclopedia by David Crystal