Morphology & the Lexicon: Word Journal

Novel and/or interesting lexical formations encountered in the wild, for Ling 043.

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• Infixation as explained by koalas
• ythlaf (n)
• en-
• thotcon (n)
• More compounds
• baltic (adj)
• verbal compounds/incorporation
• more more blends
• eponyms
• Ologies
• hinge words
• expletive infixation
• orogeny (n)
• potentiation
• more plurals
• brane (n)
• splishette (n)
• misc.
• elements
• from Lincoln (1999) & Masuzawa (2005)
• On birbs
• -al
• entomophagy (n)
• spaghettification (n)
• Bug parts
• Capehouse (n)
• Madagascan (adj)
• zeugmoid (n)
• sweary (adj)
• -gate
• some good productive affixation
• drag/drug (v)
• milkshake duck (v)
• -omics, -notation, -scriptive
• stegasus (n)
• indigitality (n)
• yogh (v)
• Oh shit
• schmofessional (adj)
• markednesslessness (n)
• Moirologia (n)
• quavers
• endling (n)
• productive -ity:
• Shabbawa (n)
• Clippings
• -splain
• Connotation/denotation
• Splinter-tastic!
• Plurals by analogy & creativity
• brogrammer (n)
• Perseverate (v)
• Downplay wordplay
• Compound collection
• Y’allization (n)
• anti-anti-
• fur baby mother tweet thread (n)
• advertently (adv)
• A portmantnami (blizzmanteaux?)
• Catfacing (n?)
• Ass-
• Undead (adj)
• Scap (n); BOGette (n)
• Tox-masc (n)
• Archipelagnocci (n)
• Even more blends
• Puphavior (n)
• Cephalopumpkin (n)
• be- prefixation
• More from the LSA
• WOTY 2017
• Pterodactyloid pterosaur (a+n)
• Glurge (n)
• ‘GeoTweep’ (n)
• More innovative words
• ‘Unfuck’ (v)
• Squaffles (n)
• Some good fucking noun incorporation
• ‘Tofonkey’ (n)