Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath@fediscience.org

3/19/2025, 4:46:25 PM

Public

New draft on back-formation and forward-formation – comments welcome! The concepts of "inventorium" and "idiosyncrasy" are crucial here, as well as the difference between (word or sentence) "formation" and "coinage". Importantly, "word-
formation does not imply addition to the inventorium" (p. 12). https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/008883

Forward-formation, back-formation, and the nature of the inventorium - lingbuzz/008883

This paper discusses back-formation from the perspective of a view of morphology in which there are productive and unproductive declarative schemas, but no abstract processes, so that the issue of the - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

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