Contoh 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.

• In fact, these coinages accounted for two-fifths of the novel nouns produced by four- and five-year-olds.

• Such uses were rare compared with intransitive coinages.

• The forms that appear more frequently in coinages are thereby considered the most productive of the options available.

• There, children should produce few early coinages since it takes time for them to analyze the options that are available.

• Overall, simplicity should show up early in children's coinages provided the language offers simple options for constructing new words.

• The most important generalisation about these coinages is that they cannot be improved upon.

• How many of these 20th-century coinages can you identify and define?