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June 2010
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1613-396X
DOI:
10.1515/ling.2010.017

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The creation of new words

John Haiman1

1Macalester College

c1Correspondence address: Linguistics Program, Macalester College, 1600 Grand Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105 USA. E-mail:

Citation Information: Linguistics. Volume 48, Issue 3, Pages 547–572, ISSN (Online) 1613-396X, ISSN (Print) 0024-3949, DOI: 10.1515/ling.2010.017, June 2010

Publication History:
Received:
2008-03-18
Revised:
2009-02-12
Published Online:
2010-06-17

Abstract

Exaptation (Lass, Journal of Linguistics 26: 79–102, 1990) is the recycling of meaningless linguistic “junk”, which may be recycled to create entirely new words. Two cases are examined here:

Examples of this sort may call into question two dogmas of functional linguistics: that grammaticalization is irreversible, and the widely shared view that erosion is the only productive process of linguistic change.

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