Word-coinage
Title | Word-coinage PDF eBook |
Author | Leon Mead |
Publisher | |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 1902 |
Genre | Americanisms |
ISBN |
Word-coinage
Title | Word-coinage PDF eBook |
Author | Leon Mead |
Publisher | |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 1902 |
Genre | Americanisms |
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Word-Coinage: Being an Inquiry Into Recent Neologisms, Also a Brief Study of Literary Style, Slang, and Provincialisms
Title | Word-Coinage: Being an Inquiry Into Recent Neologisms, Also a Brief Study of Literary Style, Slang, and Provincialisms PDF eBook |
Author | Leon Mead |
Publisher | Franklin Classics Trade Press |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2018-11-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780353621855 |
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Word-Coinage; Being an Inquiry Into Recent Neologisms, Also a Brief Study of Literary Style, Slang, and Provincialisms
Title | Word-Coinage; Being an Inquiry Into Recent Neologisms, Also a Brief Study of Literary Style, Slang, and Provincialisms PDF eBook |
Author | Leon Mead |
Publisher | Theclassics.Us |
Pages | 72 |
Release | 2013-09 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781230253879 |
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX. Neologisms.--( Continued.) Professor Thomas J. Allen advocates the adoption of such a means of improving our language as will give future generations the benefit of the united efforts of the best living authorities on language, and he would gladly support any movement that might lead toward that end. If the expression be allowed, he favors respectable counterfeiting, in the hope that it may lead to the establishment of a mint. But he is not a counterfeiter. He knows that we need more word-currency, but he does not wish to assume the responsibility of coining. He is averse to "free and unlimited coinage." He believes in a single standard--constituted authority. Edward Payson Jackson made a rather neat word in Filipina, to designate a Filipino woman. Dr. Van Dyke, in Fisherman's Luck, devotes a light and airy chapter to the subject of Taxability. Professor John Duncan Quackenboe, in Hypnotism in Mental and Moral Culture, introduces a fearsome word denoting a parlous thing. It is opsomania, which, alas! works its ravages among the young and fair. It gives them "indigestion, mental indolence, chronic gastric catarrh, and, most to be deplored, a fetid breath, which renders the possessor positively odious." "The breath of a healthy girl of twenty," moralizes Professor Quackenbos, "should be pure and sweet as a May breeze," but opsomania "transforms it into a nauseous blast." In his review of the book William S. Walsh comments in these words on this fashionable malady: "It is the commonest of all complaints among the girls of the period. The girls themselves call it a sweet tooth, or, rather, a sweet tooth is that form of the complaint which mostly attacks the girls. In a general way Dr. Quackenbos defines opsomania as a mania for...
Word-Coinage
Title | Word-Coinage PDF eBook |
Author | Leon Mead |
Publisher | Nabu Press |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2014-02 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781293727652 |
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Lexicalization and Language Change
Title | Lexicalization and Language Change PDF eBook |
Author | Laurel J. Brinton |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2005-10-27 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9781139445733 |
Lexicalization, a process of language change, has been conceptualized in a variety of ways. Broadly defined as the adoption of concepts into the lexicon, it has been viewed by syntacticians as the reverse process of grammaticalization, by morphologists as a routine process of word-formation, and by semanticists as the development of concrete meanings. In this up-to-date survey, Laurel Brinton and Elizabeth Traugott examine the various conceptualizations of lexicalization that have been presented in the literature. In light of contemporary work on grammaticalization, they then propose a new, unified model of lexicalization and grammaticalization. Their approach is illustrated with a variety of case studies from the history of English, including present participles, multi-word verbs, adverbs, and discourse markers, as well as some examples from other Indo-European languages. The first review of the various approaches to lexicalization, this book will be invaluable to students and scholars of historical linguistics and language change.
The Chautauquan
Title | The Chautauquan PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 696 |
Release | 1901 |
Genre | |
ISBN |