Some linguistic approaches favour analogy as the mechanism responsible for the creation of neologisms whereas others opt for rules. In fact the two processes coexist in a sort of complementary distribution, and it can be hypothesized that an analogy becomes a rule, at least for formal neologisms, when the number of neologisms of one and the same type part company with a given initial model to constitue more general rule-based generation.
CLIL theme: 3147 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Linguistique, Sciences du langage