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Lexical creativity and the organization of the lexicon

Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 2003
The aim of this paper is to show that lexical creativity and the organization of the lexicon are “mutually enlightening” realities. Using of Catalan neologisms, I take advantage of Bybee’s (2001: 109) insight that “any multi- morphemic word or sequence is highly embedded in connections with other words containing at least one of the same morphemes.” I ...
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Collo-Creativity and Blending: Recognizing Creativity Requires Lexical Storage in Constructional Slots

Zeitschrift Fur Anglistik Und Amerikanistik, 2018
AbstractThis article explores to what extent linguistic creativity can be accounted for by investigating the collocational and collostructional properties of different constructions. A distinction is made between intended creativity and creativity caused by despair.
Thomas Herbst
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Grounded for life: creative symbol-grounding for lexical invention

Connection Science, 2016
One of the challenges of linguistic creativity is to use words in a way that is novel and striking and even whimsical, to convey meanings that remain stubbornly grounded in the very same world of familiar experiences as serves to anchor the most literal and unimaginative language.
Tony Veale
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Lexical creativity in L2 French

IRAL-International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 2001
Michael Levison
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Creative discovery in the lexical “validation gap”

Computer Speech & Language, 2005
Compound terms play a surprisingly key role in the organization of lexical ontologies. However, their inclusion forces one to address the issues of completeness and consistency that naturally arise from this organizational role. In this paper, we show how creative exploration in the space of literal compounds can reveal not only additional compound ...
Jer Hayes, Nuno Seco, Tony Veale
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Lexical creativity, textuality and problems of metalanguage

Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 2007
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Humor, creativity and lexical creation

2021
Language as a whole is marked by its communicative function and lexicon is part of this function thanks to its denotative referential potentialities. But there is a language skill that goes beyond mere communication, and in which lexicon plays a full role: the ability to play with words in order to exploit their ludic potential and make a humorous use ...
Brisset, Frédérique, Bordet, Lucile
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