This paper investigates the evolution of splinters into more productive elements available for the creation of new words, and offers a diachronic and corpus-based analysis of -burger, whose development shows the shift from splinter to abbreviated combining form, and on to secreted affix. This combining form has even developed a new slang meaning. This shows how the lexicon can evolve from creativity towards productivity, from extra-grammatical to marginal (but still grammatical) morphology.
CLIL theme: 3147 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Linguistique, Sciences du langage