Examples of coinage

• In both languages, such coinages seem to first appear around age two, and in both, the coinages seem designed to fill lexical gaps.

• Speakers presumably show a similar preference in their own coinages.

• I then argue that productivity must be assessed from use in coinages.

• Evidence that they do comes from regularizations of inflections and from coinages.

• Of the two coinages we commonly exchange and which are liable to debasement, language is far more damaging than money.

• Systematic trends in spontaneous coinages first suggested that children apply general acquisitional principles in word formation.

• Actual coinages then become the criterion for measuring productivity.

• Such coinages form the topic of this and the next chapter.