The origin of new words in Khmer

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• Dr John Haiman, Linguistics Programme, Macalester College, St Paul's, Minnesota
• Tuesday 19 January 2010, 16:00-17:30
• GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

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The lexicon is strewn with alliterating near synonyms. They probably arose from original echo formations like spic and span. The echo formations in their turn arose through a combination of two actors, an adaptation of near-synonyms to their hosts via etymologically unmotivated affixation; and the outcome of a word-game which creates portmanteau words like smog.

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