Ash compound frenzy

The creation and use of Norwegian compounds with aske ‘ash’ in the media in the spring of 2010 was remarkable. The Norwegian Newspaper Corpus has provided suitable data for an empirical study concerning neology and ‘burstiness’ on this topic. The results indicate that the number of new types as well as token frequencies rose markedly and the variety of compounds in use remained elevated for over a month.

Published online: 23 March 2012
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.49.11sme