Language productivity at work Ghent University
Timothy Colleman, Miriam Taverniers, Renata Enghels, Johanna Barddal, Peter Lauwers, Robert Hartsuiker
Language patterns are more or less ‘productive’, depending on their lexical scope. An interdisciplinary approach is needed to compare attested productivity, in present-day language use as well as through history, to on-line and off-line language processing, and to measure the impact of
personal variables. Only in this way can one arrive at a better understanding of what productivity is.