User:PUC/WOTD-like thing

WOTD-like thing

• Wiktionary:Beer parlour/2018/June § "Linguistic phenomenon of the week/month"?: How can we stay within our purview and not encroach on Wikipedia's turf?
  • metathesis (quantitative metathesis, hyperthesis), doublet, reborrowing, exocentric compound, rebracketing, ergative verb, valency, libfix, parasynthetic compound, disfixation, back-formation, backronym, autological term, calque, semantic loan, grammaticalisation (content word → function word; French on, German man), phonetic erosion, suppletion, linguistic purism (Anglish, Icelandic), euphemism treadmill, analogical levelling, RAS syndrome, pleonastic compound nouns, pleonasms, reconstruction, haplology, epenthesis (excrescence, anaptyxis), prescriptivism vs. descriptivism (avoir faim: avoir très faim vs. avoir grand faim), semantic shift, obligatorification, verb-framing vs. satellite-framing, assimilation (progressive assimilation, regressive assimilation), vocal fry, vowel shift, motivation (of the sign), negative-polarity item, denotation vs. connotation, holorhyme, anglicism, pseudo-anglicism, legal doublet, genericized trademark, antonomasia, simile, univerbation, sound law, rhyming compounds, blend, portmanteau, folk etymology, paradigm leveling, zero derivation / conversion, zero morpheme / null morpheme, T-V distinction, language register, orthoepy (French œnologie, œsophage), pronunciation spelling ~ spelling pronunciation, hypercorrection, nominativus pendens, fossil word, cranberry morpheme
    • combine this with FWOTD? First we present the phenomenon, then set up one week of FWOTD to illustrate it?
  • bit outside of scope: left dislocation ~ right dislocation, contrastive focus reduplication