Lexical innovation and the periphery of language.
Lexical innovations (e.g., zero-derivations coined on the fly by a speaker) seem to bear semantic content. Yet, such expressions cannot bear semantic content as a function of the conventions of meaning in force in the language, since they are not part of its lexicon. This is in tension with the comm...
| Publicado en: | Linguistics & Philosophy Vol. 45; no. 1; pp. 39 - 64 |
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