FEATURED NEOLOGISM:

“leeswee” (Dutch for ‘reading contraction’): sad feeling that can overwhelm a person when they have finished a book they really like (see https://ivdnt.org/actueel/woorden-van-de-week/nieuw-woord-van-de-week/leeswee/)

Melissa Schuring is a final year PhD candidate in the research group Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics (QLVL). In her PhD, she combines insights from language acquisition research and developmental sociolinguistics to investigate when, how and why preadolescent children use English words in Dutch (Oh my God! Zotte shit). In her postdoc, she aspires to combine these fields with a neurolinguistic perspective, investigating how neologisms, contact-induced items (e.g. English loanwords) in particular, are processed in the mind.
Personal website: https://www.melissaschuring.com/