AUTOUR DE LA NOTION DE «NEOLOGISME»*
On the concept of « neologism»

Summary/Abstract: Lexical creativity is unquestionably an element indicating the vitality of languages. From this perspective, the paper approaches the theoretical aspect of defining the neologism, as an operational concept, in the neology research. The paper surveys a few recent opinions put forward by Romanian and foreign linguists, in particular, the French ones, who go beyond the classical distinction into form and meaning in neologisms, seeing a great situational diversity, which requires lexical, semantic, syntactic devices, from borrowings to semantic innovations or even changes in the syntactic structure.

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