ABSTRACT
Human societies change over time. When new ideas, new tools, new institutions, new knowledge and new ways of life arise, they bring forth new words – neologisms. This chapter begins with an overview of research on the major waves of neologisms in the history of Chinese, followed by a review of recent work on the conventionalization measures of neologisms and the computational modelling of semantic change involved in neologisms, and concludes with suggestions for future directions.
