Créations néologiques dans les romans d’Ernest Pépin, auteur antillais

Abstract

In their novels, the Caribbean writers attach importance to regionalisms, but they like also to use in their way the multiple possibilities of expression that the language offers by creating new words. We propose in this article an analysis of several idiolectal phenomena in Ernest Pépin’s Tambour-Babel (1996). The compounding and the derivation are the most frequently used procedures.