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Chris A. Smith

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Open access Jul 2026

How novel are low-frequency words?

This study explores the relationship between low-frequency lexical forms and lexical innovation by examining infrequent and non-lexicalised adjectives formed with the suffix -able (e.g., jokeable, trickable). Employing a corpusbased analysis of the 20-billion-word News on the Web (NOW) corpus (2010–2025), we identified...

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