Victoria Neufeldt
Canadian lexicographer
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
The job is like having a front row seat in a theatre. You watch for new words and new meanings and you see language being born.
—Victoria Neufeldt, Canadian lexicographer, Saskatoon StarPhoenix, January 24, 2006
Posted on February 7, 2006 at 6:17 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Being an integral aspect of the language, neology of any kind is also not a new phenomenon....[T]he process has, of course, gone on since the beginning of language. There may be periods of especially notable activity, when the language is bursting with neology, such as the Elizabethan period or the present one; but a basic level of creativity continues without cease.
—Victoria Neufeldt, Canadian lexicographer, A Civil But Untrammeled Tongue, 1995
Posted on November 1, 1999 at 6:01 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Neology, far from being a separable linguistic phenomenon that manifests itself periodically or sporadically in response to social stimuli, in fact rises out of ordinary linguistic competence, what might be called the linguistic collective unconscious of the speech community.
—Victoria Neufeldt, Canadian lexicographer, A Civil But Untrammeled Tongue, 1995
Posted on October 3, 2000 at 1:32 PM
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