This paper delves deeper into the linguistic behavior of neologisms in terms of their frequency of use across different genres and time periods. The focus is on a selection of neologisms that were included in the online dictionaries of American English in 2020. The corpus analysis was conducted using the NOW (News on the Web) and COCA (Corpus of Co...

By Đelaludina Šukalić

This paper focuses on the collocational behavior of a gendered noun pair ‘king’ and ‘queen’. The Corpus of Historical American English (COHA), developed by Davies (2010), was used to investigate collocational patterns of the two target words across twenty time periods starting from 1810 to 2010. The Corpus of Contemporary Am...

By Đelaludina Šukalić

The aim of this paper is to offer insight on how English idioms containing the zoonym component are translated into Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS). The analysis includes 82 examples of English idioms taken from the lexicographic source, bilingual dictionary, which were then categorized according to their zoonym  constituents  and  em...

By Adnan Bujak, Đelaludina Šukalić