Infinite use of finite means’: the creative aspect of the lexicon of English as seen through some samples of engineering jargon / Yuthandy Maniam

• Main Author: Maniam, Yuthandy
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2004
• Subjects: PE English language; Research
• Online Access: http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/46571/2/46571.pdf; http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/46571/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Mara

This article is a simple study of the creative aspect of language, aptly described as ‘the infinite use of finite means’ by Wilhelm von Humboldt (Brown 1967: 82). More specifically it aims to demonstrate that the lexicon of the English Language (like any other language, for that matter) is self-gene...