This work analyses a corpus made of the titles of research projects belonging to the last four European Commission Framework Programmes (FP4, FP5, FP6, FP7) during a time span of nearly two decades (1994-2012). The starting point is the idea of creating a corpus of titles which would constitute a terminological niche, a sort of “cluster map” offering an overall vision on the terms used and the ...

Lexical blending is a highly productive and frequent process by which new words enter a language. A blend is formed when two or more source words are combined, with at least one them shortened, as in brunch (breakfast+lunch). We use linguistic and cognitive aspects of this process to motivate a computational treatment of neologisms formed by blending. We propose statistical features that can in...

Patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease and normal controls were tested on a retrograde amnesia test with semantic content (Neologism and Vocabulary Test, or NVT), consisting of neologisms to be defined. Patients showed a decrement as compared to normal controls, pointing to retrograde amnesia within semantic memory. No evidence for a gradient within this amnesia was found, although ...

This paper intends to trace the introduction of an English-induced, COVID-related neologism, covidiota , into Spanish language. The study is based on a corpus tweets, starting in March 2020. It examines several specific features which mark word as new, unfamiliar item, such different ways graphical highlighting, for example. On other hand, aims detect possible indicators integration language us...

The article is a meditation on Ermenautica, collective of anthropologists, navigators, activists, cultural mediators, and marine lovers based alongside the Tyrrhenian Sea in Mediterranean. A neologism recombining terms “hermeneutics” “nautical”, Ermenautica conceptualized both as venue practice freedom deeply attuned to 'experimental turn' contemporary anthropology. author recounts recent saili...