[Ads-l] Nice word-formation I hadn't previously encountered

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed Jul 13 03:06:27 UTC 2022


"Swammer": a former (competitive) swimmer.  Don't know how long it's been
around but here's a web page from 2018 (yup, SwimSwam) that presupposes
familiarity with the term:

https://swimswam.com/8-swammers-on-how-the-sport-is-still-with-them/

Who says you never find inflectional morphology within derivational
morphology?

LH

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