Meowphology

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Authors: Edith Podhovnik
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Abstract

Words like purrfect and pawsome are everywhere in the cativerse, and they work because they follow actual linguistic patterns. Once you know linguistics behind these feline word creations, you can catify any word you want. Meowphology Meowphology is the study of how we form cat-inspired words. Meowphology, of course, is itself a cat-inspired word formation coined from the linguistic term morphology, which looks at word formation. Words are made up of chunks, which are called morphemes. Word ...

Fields of Study & Subjects

Syntax Semantics Linguistic Variation Language and cultural evolution Linguistic Variation and Morphology

Publication details

Journal / source
Industrias Culturais (Universidade de Coimbra)
Publication date
5 January 2026