La neología: encrucijada entre estabilidad y renovación

Without lexical innovation, without a constant updating of the words that make them up, languages would lose their reason for being, which is none other than allowing us to name the world around us. Neology is, therefore, a necessary phenomenon for the evolution of languages and their adaptation to...

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Published in:Clina 2023-01, Vol.9 (1), p.9
Main Authors: García Palacios, Joaquín, Sánchez Ibáñez, Miguel, Maroto, Nava
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Subjects:
Diachronic linguistics
Language change
Morphemes
Morphology
Neologisms
Semantics
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Summary:Without lexical innovation, without a constant updating of the words that make them up, languages would lose their reason for being, which is none other than allowing us to name the world around us. Neology is, therefore, a necessary phenomenon for the evolution of languages and their adaptation to the new realities to which they refer. In it, the characteristics of each code come together to generate new units (morphological procedures, semantic assignment, orthographic adaptation, or conversion) with the innovative impulse represented by the constant appearance of new concepts to be named and the incessant exchange of information between various languages that takes place in today's society. Neology constitutes a point of tension between the weight of diachrony, which leads language to its stabilization, and that of the synchronic drive for lexical regeneration, which motivates linguistic change.
ISSN:2444-1961
DOI:10.14201/clina202391911