@article{MacKenzie_2014, title={Lexical innovation: cromulently embiggening a language}, url={https://raei.ua.es/article/view/2014-n27-lexical-innovation-cromulently-embiggening-a-language}, DOI={10.14198/raei.2014.27.06}, abstractNote={In this article I look at the main ways of making new English words, and at the different types of neologisms this produces; consider various categories of people who coin them, including famous authors and television scriptwriters as well as anonymous nonnative speakers of English as a lingua franca, and highlight the similarities and differences in the ways they tend to coin words; consider to what extent the formation of new words by way of established processes or rules or schemas should be thought of as morphological productivity rather than individual creativity; and finally look at the processes by which neologisms can, potentially, be diffused.}, number={27}, journal={Alicante Journal of English Studies / Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses}, author={MacKenzie, Ian}, year={2014}, month={Nov.}, pages={91–105} }