New creation

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Under new creation (also: neologism , coinage , original creation, word formation ) refers to a newly formed word as opposed to word formation not already known morpheme is derived, but has been redesigned phonetically. (Fleischer & Barz 1995: 5f .; Erben 1993: 18f.) Occasionally, however , new creation is equated with neologism . The term is therefore not used in the same sense by all authors. The following examples apply only to the conception of new creation mentioned first .

Examples

New creations are coming ...

  • in advertising: “ Kelts ” for a beer brand
  • in literature: English example " Quark " [kvɔːk] from Joyce 's Finnegans Wake , (in physics now in the sense of special elementary particles), the verb "to galumph" invented by Lewis Carroll
  • in science: " Gas " Conscious new creation based on " Chaos "
  • in science fiction: "Stimic" for a musical instrument
  • in everyday life: English as "Blurb" for " blurb "
  • In children's language: "dongen" (with an unclear meaning), children's programs ( Urmel = little dragon)
  • in linguistic experiments (especially known: "wug" for a bird-like animal image)

... but are only rarely included in dictionaries.

In contrast to compound words, derivatives and other forms of word formation, they only play a minor role in contemporary language; for the early days of language development, however, it is assumed that new creations were an important means of word formation (Bußmann 2002).

literature

  • Hadumod Bußmann (Ed.) With the collaboration of Hartmut Lauffer: Lexikon der Sprachwissenschaft. 4th, revised and bibliographically supplemented edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-520-45204-7 .
  • Elke Donalies: The word formation of the German. An overview. Narr, Tübingen 2002. 2nd edition 2005, ISBN 3-8233-5157-5 .
  • Johannes Erben : Introduction to the German theory of word formation. 3rd revised edition. Schmidt, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-503-03038-7 .
  • Wolfgang Fleischer, Irmhild Barz, with the collaboration of Marianne Schröder: Word formation in contemporary German. 2nd, revised and supplemented edition. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1995, ISBN 3-484-10682-4 .
  • Hermann Paul : Principles of the history of language. 4th edition. Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1909. Chapter: "Primordial Creation", pp. 174–188.
  • Oliver Siebold: Word - Genre - Text. Word formation in science fiction. Narr, Tübingen 2000, ISBN 3-8233-5850-2 (also dissertation at the FU Berlin ).

Web links

Wiktionary: New creation  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helmut Glück (ed.), With the assistance of Friederike Schmöe : Metzler Lexikon Sprach. 3rd, revised edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2005, ISBN 3-476-02056-8 (article “Neologism”).
  2. ^ Hilke Elsen: First language acquisition. The acquisition of the German phonetic system. German University Publishing House, Wiesbaden 1991; P. 174 ISBN 3-8244-4087-3
  3. Jean Berko: The learning of English morphology by the child. In: Wolfgang Eichler, Adolf Hofer (Hrsg.): Language acquisition and linguistic theories. Texts on the child's language. Piper, Munich 1974. pp. 215-242. ISBN 3-492-02066-6