Paraphrastic reformulation and neology: a productive relationship

Abstract

Generally, reformulation implies a process of discursive reinterpretation which attempts to solve problems of semantic origin. To recover and revise contents in order to guarantee enunciative cohesion and progression, different metalinguistic resources called paraphrastic reformulative marks are used, such as defining verb or punctuation marks. This article aims to examine the discursive relationships established between these markers and their presence in contexts of neologisms. On the one hand, the corpus from the data in Catalan collected by the Observatori de Neologia of Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain) should provide the response to why there are word formation resources that contain a higher presence of reformulations. On the other hand, it should allow to make a first approach that delimits the functions that markers play in statements which co-occur with neological contexts