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Considerations on the acceptance of German neologisms from the 1990s

Are borrowed neologisms accepted more slowly into the German language than German words resulting from the application of word formation rules? This study addresses this question by focusing on two possible indicators for the acceptance of neologisms: a) frequency development of 239 German neologisms from the 1990s (loanwords as well as new words resulting from the application of word formation rules) in the German reference corpus DeReKo and b) frequency development in the use of pragmatic markers (‘flags’, namely quotation marks and phrases such as sogenannt ‘so-called’) with these words. In the second part of the article, a psycholinguistic approach to evaluating the (psychological) status of different neologisms and non-words in an experimentally controlled study and plans to carry out interviews in a field test to collect speakers’ opinions on the acceptance of the analysed neologisms are outlined. Finally, implications for the lexicographic treatment of both types of neologisms are discussed.

Considerations on the acceptance of German neologisms from the 1990s

Urheber*in: Klosa-Kückelhaus, Annette; Wolfer, Sascha

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Language
Englisch

Subject
Deutsch
Neologismus
Wörterbuch
Empirische Linguistik
Wortbildung
Germanische Sprachen; Deutsch

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Klosa-Kückelhaus, Annette
Wolfer, Sascha
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Oxford : Oxford University Press
(when)
2020-06-18

URN
urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-99160
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  • Klosa-Kückelhaus, Annette
  • Wolfer, Sascha
  • Oxford : Oxford University Press

Time of origin

  • 2020-06-18

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