[Ads-l] antedates for 'lexicalization' (OEDO 1949)

[James Eric Lawson]

OEDO reports 'lexicalization', first citation 1949, as a derivative of
'lexicalize', 1937, in an entry modified Sep 2018 but not "fully
updated". Here are two antedates, 1926 and 1944, the earliest of which
suggests the verb might be a backformation from the nominalization.

1926  J. Piaget _The language and thought of the child_ 132 (HathiTrust)
Students of linguistics in particular are constantly detecting this
process in language, as when they show how the sentence is always
earlier than the word, or when, like M . Bally, they analyse the
phenomenon of 'lexicalization.'

Op. cit. 133  M. Hugo Schuchardt has recently pointed out that not only
is the word-sentence earlier than the word, but also that the word is
derived from the juxtaposition of two sentences, which juxtaposition
then brings about the need for co-ordination and finally for
lexicalization.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015003650580&view=1up&seq=161&q1=lexicalization

1944  A. F. Watts _The language and mental development of children_ III.
3. 63 (HathiTrust) 3. Lexicalization. (section heading)

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924013427129&view=1up&seq=67&q1=lexicalization

Op. cit. 64 It is because language is fundamentally a flow of sounds
that what has come to be called the process of lexicalization has to be
assisted while children are still at the nursery level of development,
when expressions like *ball-gone* may not be 'combinations' except to
the adult hearing them as such.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924013427129&view=1up&seq=68&q1=lexicalization

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James Eric Lawson

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