2 - CASE STUDIES OF LEXICAL INNOVATION
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
Summary
Words are not coined in order to extract the meanings of their elements and compile a new meaning from them. The new meaning is there first, and the coiner is looking for the best way to express it without going to too much trouble.
Dwight Bolinger 1975, p. 109- Type
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- The Lexicon in Acquisition , pp. 141 - 142Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1993