Lexical innovations (e.g., zero-derivations coined on the fly by a speaker) seem to bear semantic content. Yet, such expressions cannot content as function of conventions meaning in force language, since they are not part its lexicon. This is tension with commonplace view that lexical constituted linguistic conventions. The conventionalist has two immediate ways out tension. first preserve assu...

We study the introduction of lexical innovations into a community of language users. Lexical innovations, i.e., new terms added to people’s vocabulary, play an important role in the process of language evolution. Nowadays, information is spread through a variety of networks, including, among others, online and offline social networks and the World Wide Web. The entire system, comprising network...

In this article, the aim of the authors is to study the role of repetition in creating music and parallelism in Nimayee poems in the three collections of poems by Mehdi Akhavan Sales: Zamestan, Akhere Shahname and Az Avesta. Accordingly, the researchers have investigated the various manners of repetition in creating parallelism in the poems at three levels: phonological parallelism, lexical par...

We analyze and extend a recently proposed model of linguistic diffusion in social networks, to analytically derive time to convergence, and to account for the innovation phase of lexical dynamics in networks. Our new model, the degree-biased voter model with innovation, shows that the probability of existence of a norm is inversely related to innovation probability. When the innovation rate in ...

The formation of neologisms in Malay has not been extensively studied and therefore yet to be fully understood. current study examined the lexical innovation processes Twitter posts Malay. A 25,679-word corpus was compiled from 2,000 tweets 200 Malaysian users their twenties. textual analysis performed through AntConc software identified “ ni ” (this) nk (want) as top two neologisms, these word...