Resumen de Les composés populaires de la langue catalane: étude diachronique de la néologie
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the utility of lexical neology analysis in linguistic description. This work is part of a large project aiming at contrasting the description of neologisms and neologistic resources used in different modalities of the Catalan language. In this context, we focus our research on neologisms used in the media that are formed by Catalan compounding, which is one of the mechanisms allowing Catalan speakers to form new words using their own linguistic resources. We have analyzed Catalan neologisms formed by compounding in a diachronic corpus of newspaper articles covering a period of fifteen years. The study shows how the productivity of popular compounding has diminished from 8% to 2%. It shows also that the structure of most compounds is NN while the representativity of other structures, significant and productive in the past, appears to be null in the neologism corpus under study.
Plan de l'article
1. Introduction
2. Corpus et méthodologie
2.1. Concept de néologisme et corpus d'exclusion
2.2. Enregistrement des données
3. La composition populaire
4. La composition populaire dans les grammaires catalanes et autres travaux linguistiques
5. Néologismes formés par composition populaire au cours de la période 1995-2007 : résultats
6. Discussion
6.1. Au détriment de quelle ressource de formation la productivité de la composition populaire a-t-elle diminué ?
6.2. La diminution de la productivité de la composition populaire correspond-elle à un phénomène isolé de la langue catalane ou se produit-elle dans d'autres langues romanes ?
