A primer on getting neologisms from foreign languages to under-resourced languages
–arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence
Neologisms are certain uses, expressions, and words that did not traditionally exist in a language, but are incorporated into it due to the need of speakers to adapt to a new reality [1]. That is, neologisms are those new words and expressions that speakers incorporate into a language, as new things and new ways of doing to name arise. They are the exact opposite of archaisms. The appearance of neologisms is a common and ordinary process in all languages, forced as they are to adapt and update or die. However, a word can be considered a neologism only for a certain time, since once it has been incorporated and normalized as part of the language, it simply ceases to be a novelty. The simplest way to classify neologisms would be from the method used to create them, thus we have: 1. morphological neologisms: they are built using words that already exist in the language, through the processes of composition or derivation. For example, the word "aircraft" was once a neologism, made up of the prefix "air" and the suffix "craft". This also happens with "teleoperators" or with "biosecurity".
arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence
Mar-7-2023
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