1.0Centrum Badań Kognitywnych nad Językiem i Komunikacjąhttps://cbkjk.uwr.edu.pl/en/Izabela Jaraszekhttps://cbkjk.uwr.edu.pl/en/author/ijaraszek/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="mckm78fsuj"><a href="https://cbkjk.uwr.edu.pl/en/2024/11/07/rozpoznanie-jako-czynnik-zmian-jezykowych/">Recognition as a factor in language change</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://cbkjk.uwr.edu.pl/en/2024/11/07/rozpoznanie-jako-czynnik-zmian-jezykowych/embed/#?secret=mckm78fsuj" width="600" height="338" title="“Recognition as a factor in language change” — Centrum Badań Kognitywnych nad Językiem i Komunikacją" data-secret="mckm78fsuj" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script> /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); //# sourceURL=https://cbkjk.uwr.edu.pl/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js </script> https://cbkjk.uwr.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/sites/671/2024/11/Words-have-power.png19201080The aim of this presentation is to draw attention to an understudied cause of language change: recognition. Traditionally, mainly immanent structural causes, incomplete or imperfect intergenerational transmission, language contact, language variation and prestige have been identified as causes for language change, next to internal factors such as analogy and reanalysis. However, the analysis presented here of some non-morphemic word-formation processes shows that recognition must be added to this list of possible explanations for language change, in particular for lexical change. The processes discussed here at length are suffix reinterpretation, clipping and (pseudo-) embellished clipping, and libfixing. Since recognition also plays a role in blending, some attention will be paid to this process, although blending is less central to language change than the other processes discussed.