Italiano. Si è analizzata la selezione dell’ausiliare da parte dei verbi intransitivi, all’interno di un gruppo di neologismi italiani. I verbi studiati sono stati tratti da elenchi di neologismi disponibili online. Si è quindi verificata la loro presenza e il loro comportamento sul corpus itTenTen. Tali verbi hanno dimostrato una evidente preferenza per l’ausiliare avere. English. We analyzed ...

Katakana, Japanese phonogram mainly used for loan words, is a trou-blemaker in Japanese word segmentation. Since Katakana words are heavily domain-dependent and there are many Katakana neologisms, it is almost impossible to construct and maintain Katakana word dictionary by hand. This paper proposes an automatic segmentation method of Japanese Katakana compounds, which makes it possible to cons...

In this paper, we propose a computational approach to generate neologisms consisting of homophonic puns and metaphors based on the category of the service to be named and the properties to be underlined. We describe all the linguistic resources and natural language processing techniques that we have exploited for this task. Then, we analyze the performance of the system that we have developed. ...

This paper employs both a web-ascorpus and a Twitter-as-corpus approach to present a longitudinal case study of the establishment of three recently coined, synonymous neologisms: rapefugee, rapeugee and rapugee. We describe the retrieval and processing of the web and Twitter data and discuss the dynamics of the competition between the three forms within and across both datasets based on quantit...

Neologism dictionaries celebrate the influence of science and technology on language – how scientists and technologists add to the stock of words, and occasionally, add new grammatical structures. There are two claims made in the literature on neologisms: First, that borrowings, from classical languages and ‘prestige’ languages are widespread in the science and technology literature. Second tha...

We examine two different methods for finding rising words (among which neologisms) and falling words (among which archaisms) in decades of magazine texts (millions of words) and in years of tweets (billions of words): one based on correlation coefficients of relative frequencies and time, and one based on comparing initial and final word frequencies of time intervals. We find that smoothing fre...

When an agent’s motivation is sensitive to how his supervisor thinks about the agent’s competence, the supervisor has to take into account both informational and expressive contents of her message to the agent. This paper shows that the supervisor can credibly express her trust in the agent’s ability only by being unclear about what to do. Suggesting what to do, i.e., “directives,” could reveal...

In this paper we seek to account for scalar implicatures and Horn’s division of pragmatic labor in game-theoretical terms by making use mainly of refinements of the standard solution concept of signaling games. Scalar implicatures are accounted for in terms of Farrell’s (1993) notion of a ‘Neologism-Proof’ equilibrium together with Grice’s maxim of Quality. Horn’s division of pragmatic labor is...