FEATURED NEOLOGISM:

An interesting English neologism currently is “hallucination”, in the field of AI. It refers to the generation of output that is factually incorrect, nonsensical or unsupported, yet it is presented confidently by AI models, as if true. It is a case of semantic extension, since a new sense has been incorporated to the existing lexeme “hallucination”. The form has become widespread with this meaning in the past few years.

hold a PhD in English linguistics in 2008 from the University of Jaén (Spain). The focus of this dissertation is morphological productivity measurement in its application to N+N compounds. I’ve later worked at the Universities of Valencia (until 2015) and Granada (currently) I’ve explored productivity, derivation and compounding in English variously. I’m interested in new procedures and advances in the study of neology, especially as relates to synchronic word-formation and the use of electronic corpora.