This study investigates emerging vocabulary in contemporary Italian in a corpus of 5.32 M timestamped and geotagged tweets extracted from the Italian timeline throughout 2022. We automatically identify and manually distill 8 133 candidate neologisms down to 346 unattested word forms, shedding light on their spatio-temporal circulation patterns.

“Ti blocco perché sei un trollazzo”. Lexical Innovation in Contemporary Italian in a Large Twitter Corpus

Spina S
2023-01-01

Abstract

This study investigates emerging vocabulary in contemporary Italian in a corpus of 5.32 M timestamped and geotagged tweets extracted from the Italian timeline throughout 2022. We automatically identify and manually distill 8 133 candidate neologisms down to 346 unattested word forms, shedding light on their spatio-temporal circulation patterns.
2023
twitter, social media, corpora, italian, lexical innovation, language change
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