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This book is concerned with the study of neologisms in Catalan, specifically with the description of their features. It is based on the results of the research project “Neologismes per a l’actualització del diccionari normatiu” (NADIC) (studying neologisms to update the standard Catalan dictionary), financed by Institut d’Estudis Catalans, and carried out by the Network of Catalan Language Neology Observatories between 2015 and 2017.

The chapters are organised into four main sections, dealing with general aspects of neology with the inclusion into a dictionary of certain types of neologisms as well as specific case studies, and questions on language variation since lexicography plays a central role in the construction of the standard language.

Foreword. Dictionarisation: To Be or Not to Be in the Dictionary

M. Teresa Cabré

Presentation

Judit Freixa, M. Isabel Guardiola, Josep Martines, and M. Amor Montané

The Dictionarisation of Neologisms: The NADIC as a Model

Judit Freixa

Tendencies in Dictionarisation by Lexical Innovation Process

Ivan Solivellas

The Dictionarisation of Neologisms in the Information and Knowledge Society: What are the Current Challenges?

Ona Domènech-Bagaria

Analysis and Selection of Neologisms for DIEC1

Carolina Santamaria Jordà

The Dictionarisation of Neologisms Derived from Proper Nouns

Carolina Bastida and M. Amor Montané

The Dictionarization of Old and New Idioms

Jordi Ginebra

The Dictionarization of Interjections and Onomatopoeias

M. Isabel Guardiola

Phonetic Aspects and Orthographic Repercussions of the Dictionarization of Loanwords

Joan Julià-Muné

Dictionarisation and Morphological Variation: The Case of Neologisms Formed by Suffixation

Elisabet Llopart Saumell

Invisible Neologisms: Category Change

Mercè Lorente Casafont

The Locution de pa amb fonteta and other Similar Phraseological Units in Catalan: a Case of Syntagmatic and Semantic Neology

Josep Vicent Garcia Sebastià

Borrowings at the table and in the dictionary: figatell, from Italy to Valencia via Majorca (?)

Josep Martines

The Dictionarization of Blends: the Case of preqüela. An Approach According to the Theory of Conceptual Integration

Caterina Martínez

Getting Informality into the Dictionary: Colloquial Neologisms

Elisenda Bernal and Martí Freixas

The General Language Dictionary in Light of Advances: Specialised Neologisms

Rosa Estopà

From Vernacularism to Neologism through Lexicographic Criteria

Maria Gené Gil

General Bibliography

Index of Subjects

Index of Authors