Lexical innovation: cromulently embiggening a language

In this article I look at the main ways of making new English words, and at the different types of neologisms this produces; consider various categories of people who coin them, including famous authors and television scriptwriters as well as anonymous nonnative speakers of English as a l...

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Main Author: MacKenzie, Ian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Alicante 2014-11-01
Series:Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses
Online Access:https://raei.ua.es/article/view/2014-n27-lexical-innovation-cromulently-embiggening-a-language