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...

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Published in:	Linguistics & Philosophy Vol. 45; no. 1; pp. 39 - 64
Main Author:	Gasparri, Luca
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Feb2022
Subjects:	Semantics Comparative linguistics Information theory Lexicology Connected discourse
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost