Coroneologisms and Word Formation Processes in Hindi-English Codemixed Words

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https://doi.org/10.4312/ala.12.1.59-89

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COVID-19 terms, coroneologisms, Hindi-English codemixed words, word-formation processes

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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.

 

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Md. Tauseef QAMAR, St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous), Bengaluru, Karnataka

Md. Tauseef Qamar is an Assistant Professor of English at St. Joseph's College (Autonomous), Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. He received his doctorate in Computational Linguistics at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, in 2019. Currently, he teaches undergraduate and graduate English major students’ general Linguistics, additional English, and discourse analysis courses. His academic and research area focuses on computational Linguistics, foreign language teaching methodologies, technology-enhanced learning, mobile learning, and Indic machine translation.

Juhi YASMEEN, Jain (Deemed-to-be) University, Bengaluru, Karnataka

Juhi Yasmeen is an Assistant Professor of English at the Department of English, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, JAIN (Deemed-to-be University), Bengaluru, India. She received PhD in Applied Linguistics at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, in 2017. She currently teaches undergraduate engineering students general Linguistics, communicative, and general English courses. Her research interest lies in education and technology, translation studies, English language teaching, syllabus designing, and media and Linguistics.

Md. Arfeen ZEESHAN, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh

Md. Arfeen Zeeshan is a research scholar in the department of linguistics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. He received M.Phil. in Translation Studies at Maulana Azad National Urdu University in 2018. In addition, he also works for the development of language technology systems. He has published several research papers in national and international journals. His research area deals with Indic machine translation, and media Linguistics.

Sanket PATHAK, Mihup Communications Pvt. Ltd., Kolkata, West Bengal

Sanket Pathak is a Language Manager at Mihup Communications, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He received his doctorate in linguistics at Lucknow University, Lucknow, India, in 2010. Currently, he handles a team of linguistics and engineers. Besides this, he has developed several Indic machine translation systems. His research area focuses on Artificial Intelligence, language technology development like ASR, TTS, NLU/NLG, MTs, etc.

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Qamar, M. T., Yasmeen , J., Zeeshan, M. A., & Pathak, S. (2022). Coroneologisms and Word Formation Processes in Hindi-English Codemixed Words. Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 12(1), 59–89. https://doi.org/10.4312/ala.12.1.59-89

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