Coroneologisms and Word Formation Processes in Hindi-English Codemixed Words

Md. Tauseef Qamar; Juhi Yasmeen; Md. Arfeen Zeeshan; Sanket Pathak

doi:10.4312/ala.12.1.59-89

Acta Linguistica Asiatica (Jan 2022)

Coroneologisms and Word Formation Processes in Hindi-English Codemixed Words

Md. Tauseef Qamar,
Juhi Yasmeen ,
Md. Arfeen Zeeshan,
Sanket Pathak

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Md. Tauseef Qamar: St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous), Bengaluru, Karnataka
Juhi Yasmeen: Jain (Deemed-to-be) University, Bengaluru, Karnataka
Md. Arfeen Zeeshan: Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
Sanket Pathak: Mihup Communications Pvt. Ltd., Kolkata, West Bengal

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4312/ala.12.1.59-89
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1

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The COVID-19 pandemic came with a flux of new words, terminologies, and phrases, which led to the rapid coinage or neologisms in the world's different languages. These lexical innovations may take place within one language as well as with the combination of two different languages. Therefore, this paper scrutinizes coroneologisms and word-formation processes in Hindi-English code-mixed words. Such a phenomenon happened due to the acceptance of English by Indians besides their mother tongue which makes them bilingual. The data were gathered from newspapers, blogs, social media, TV news, etc. Next, the linguistic analysis of the data revealed different types of word classes in Hindi-English codemixed words such as compounding, affixation, blending, and reduplication. Out of these, compounding and borrowing were reported as the most productive types of coroneologisms in Hindi-English code-mixed words.

Published in Acta Linguistica Asiatica

ISSN: 2232-3317 (Online)
Publisher: University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)
Country of publisher: Slovenia
LCC subjects: Language and Literature: Philology. Linguistics
Website: https://journals.uni-lj.si/ala

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