"Internet English: Online morphological productiveness as a proxy for innovation, cognitive categories, and style"
This paper explores how derivational morphology in English, especially as seen in internet discourse, serves as a lens into the language’s evolving conceptual and stylistic landscape. It examines how paradigm-breaking affixation trends—like "unalive" or "adulting"—challenge traditional grammatical categories and reflect shifting cognitive and cultural priorities. Drawing from linguistic theory and contemporary digital patterns, the study proposes that hyperproductivity in online English marks not just innovation, but a reconfiguration of language's expressive and rhetorical capacities.