(n.) One who introduces new words or new senses of old words into a language.
(n.) An innovator in any doctrine or system of belief, especially in theology; one who introduces or holds doctrines subversive of supernatural or revealed religion; a rationalist, so-called.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patients with such lesions typically have difficulties in the comprehension of auditory linguistic stimuli and their speech is often marked with neologistic jargon.
(2) Although speech arrest, expressive speech problems, and comprehension difficulties have often been associated with temporal lobe seizure activity, neologistic, paraphasic speech is rare.
(3) Though intelligible speech automatisms can result from seizure foci in either hemisphere, neologistic speech automatisms may implicate a focus in the language-dominant hemisphere.
(4) The third striking dissociation involved oral output; spontaneous speech, although fluent and well articulated, consisted of neologistic jargon, while reading aloud was clearly superior though not perfect.
(5) Speech production is extremely limited and consists of stereotyped phrases, recurring utterances or a few isolated words which are usually neologistically distorted.
(6) There are no documented cases of seizures causing reiterative neologistic speech automatisms.
(7) Hesitation analysis of spontaneous production from three neologistic jargonaphasics is described.
(8) Five factors were obtained: (1) Syntactic ability, (2) Phonological paraphasia, (3) Neologistic paraphasia, (4) Articulatory impairment, and (5) Vocabulary.
(9) Of the different variables examined for each parameter, a significantly greater incidence of phonemic paraphasias than neologistic paraphasias were obtained for the parameter of phonology.
(10) The purpose of this communication is to present the case history of a schizophrenic patient, a partial list of his neologistic productions, and a brief analysis of the classification of neologisms.
(11) delayed speech feedback as reinforcement in the reconditioning of intelligible verbal responses in a chronic, neologistic schizophrenic patient was investigated.
(12) With the second attack of infarction in October 1980, she developed a neologistic and semantic jargon aphasia, in which her speech consisted of neologisms, literal paraphasias, empty phrases and so-called "misused words".
(13) This paper discusses certain aspects of the speech patterns of neologistic jargon aphasic patients, whose syndrome is one form of a more general classification referred to as Wernicke's or cortical sensory aphasia.
(14) Moreover, the anomia theory of neologistic items will receive here further observational support.
(15) Broca's aphasics committed more morphological errors than did Wernicke's aphasics, whereas Wernicke's aphasics committed more graphophonemic-neologistic errors than did Broca's.
Philologist
Definition:
(n.) One versed in philology.
Example Sentences:
(1) Jaramillo – a philosopher, philologist and diplomat – oozes courtesy and severity; he studied at both Oxford and Cambridge, he explains, “in order to get out and move on”.
(2) The interacademical project "Corpus Medicorum Graecorum", started in 1907 in Berlin, reflects the evolution of the classical philologists' approach to ancient medicine.
(3) Sudhoff's views of the tasks of medical historians in the field of the history of ancient medicine were influenced by the contemporary controversy between classical philologists and medical historians about their competence.
(4) I must mention too the supremely creative contribution of Giambattista Vico, the Neapolitan philosopher and philologist whose ideas anticipate those of German thinkers such as Herder and Wolf, later to be followed by Goethe, Humboldt, Dilthey, Nietzsche, Gadamer, and finally the great 20th-century Romance philologists Erich Auerbach, Leo Spitzer, and Ernst Robert Curtius.
(5) His headteacher had high hopes that he might become a philologist and Latin scholar.
(6) Lech Kaczynski and his twin brother Jaroslaw were born in Warsaw, sons of Rajmund Kaczynski, an engineer and a member of the Polish resistance during the second world war, and his wife Jadwiga, a philologist.