The Czech zoological term zlak: A neologism or borrowing?

The neodymium neologism.

In 1838, Swedish chemist Carl Mosander isolated lanthanum, a new metal that had been hiding in Berzelius’ cerium since 18031. Two years later, he found yet another metal in cerium — this third component was responsible for a purplish hue in his samples2. He named this metal didymium, from a Greek word meaning twin. Didymium shared many chemical properties with lanthanum and thus appeared to be ...

Pseudo-Malignancy: A Defensible Neologism?

Zeitgeist: A Computational Model of Neologism Processing

Language is a dynamic landscape in which words are not fixed landmarks, but fickle signposts that switch their directions as archaic senses are lost and new, more topical senses, are gained. Frequently, entirely new lexical signposts are added as newly minted word-forms enter the language. Some of these new forms are cut from whole cloth and have their origins in creative writing, movies or gam...

Arbitrage without borrowing or short selling?

We show that a trader, who starts with no initial wealth and is not allowed to borrow money or short sell assets, is theoretically able to attain positive wealth by continuous trading, provided that she has perfect foresight of future asset prices, given by a continuous semimartingale. Such an arbitrage strategy can be constructed as a process of finite variation that satisfies a seemingly inno...

The early semantics of the neologism BREXIT: a lexicogrammatical approach

The aim of this paper is to examine the nominality of the neologism BREXIT using a corpus-informed lexicogrammatical approach. The term BREXIT, coined in 2012, used initially in print and social media in the UK is now internationally wide-spread. BREXIT is a blend of British + exit, which expresses the meaning of’Britain exiting from the EU’. Although ‘Brexit’ clearly expresses an event (motion...