Neologisms, Nonces and Word Formation
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Neologism dictionaries celebrate the influence of science and technology on language – how scientists and technologists add to the stock of words, and occasionally, add new grammatical structures. There are two claims made in the literature on neologisms: First, that borrowings, from classical languages and ‘prestige’ languages are widespread in the science and technology literature. Second that affixation is an ephemeral mechanism for forming new words. Bold claims? Let us look at some of the evidence for and against these claims.
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Exploiting linguistic knowledge to infer properties of neologisms by C . Paul Cook A thesis submitted in conformity with the requirements
Exploiting linguistic knowledge to infer properties of neologisms C. Paul Cook Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Department of Computer Science University of Toronto 2010 Neologisms, or newly-coined words, pose problems for natural language processing (NLP) systems. Due to the recency of their coinage, neologisms are typically not listed in computational lexicons—dictionary-like resources that many...
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