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The Open Scholarly Edition of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Added neologism tags for chapter 1 - issue #36 #50

Closed jss2277 closed 7 years ago

jss2277 commented 7 years ago

I went ahead and marked up all of Joyce's unique compound words along with the words that were even more uniquely his creations. If this isn't exactly what is wanted, I will be happy to fix whatever!

JonathanReeve commented 7 years ago

This looks great! Thanks! At some point in the future, it'd be great to distinguish between these two categories you noticed, compound words and more Joycean creations, but this is good for now. Merged into the project.

Just out of curiosity, do you notice any trends in these words?

jss2277 commented 7 years ago

Yes, I agree! There's definitely a distinction between the two, but even the compound words struck me as particularly Joycean and there weren't many so I included them.

A main trend I noticed is that Joyce likes to use compound words to describe colors, or the lack thereof, such as in "whitegrey" and "nocoloured". Even the neologisms which aren't specifically color related often describe sensory details or something that would otherwise suggest sight or feeling such as "carriagelamps" or "deathwound".