The UK's June 2016 decision to withdraw from the European Union, popularly referred to as Brexit , has had a major political, financial and economic impact worldwide. However, the impact was also linguistic as this event has generated a myriad of neologisms in English, such as breferendum , brexiteer , Brexitsphere , regrexit or Brexitology . The aim of the present study is to give a general overview of these new words, to establish the predominant word-formational patterns as well as to point out the creativity and speed with which speakers of English have reacted linguistically to this change in the socio-political context.
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Lalić–Krstin et al. (2018) studied this question.
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