The Complementarity of Crowdsourced Dictionaries and Professional Dictionaries viewed through the Filter of Neology

Abstract

This paper shows how amateur dictionaries, through their distinctive features (shorter inclusion timespan, analysis of the motivation, broad spectrum of expertise among the contributors) can complement professional dictionaries for the treatment of neologisms.

Keywords

• motivation
• lexicography
• semantic neology
• lexical creations
• folk linguistics
• subcultures