#WordFormation
November 18, 2024 at 9:06 PM
Monosyllabism *and* compounding as the primary wordformation strategy!
December 21, 2024 at 7:59 AM
spooktacular, momfluencer, pupperazi..

How do combining forms operate and what meaning is transferred?

Jinhong Huang and Yongwei Gao examine the evidence for 10 combining forms in American English to map out their schematic extensions and stability

#WordFormation

doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
A corpus-based study into new combining forms in American English | John Benjamins
Abstract This study examines 10 new combining forms (CFs) in American English from both diachronic and synchronic perspectives, based on data from the Corpus of Historical American English, the Corpus...
doi.org
October 10, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Russian prefixoids in RuNet: super- declines, mega- rises, nano- goes ironic, video-/avia- boom. A linguistic arms race online. Short but dense read.

nevmenandr.github.io/portfolio/as...

#Linguistics #Russian #Prefixoids #RuNet #WordFormation
August 11, 2026 at 8:11 AM