Chapter I. Occasional words and their features

1.2. Classification of occasionalisms.
Degree of occasionality
In the theory of occasionality it is customary to distinguish the following types of occasionalisms:
1) Phonetic occasionalisms are born when the author suggests a sound complex as a neoplasm, considering that this complex transmits, contains a certain semantics, due to the phonetic values of sounds, its components.
2) Lexical occasionalisms are created in most cases by a combination of different usual bases and affixes in accordance with the word-formation norm or in some contradiction with it. The neoplasm is composed of morphemes that already exist in the language.
3) Grammatical (morphological) occasionalisms are formations in which lexical semantics and grammatical form are in conflict.
4) Semantic occasionalisms are the result of the emergence of the semantic increment, which significantly transform the semantics of the original language usage of the lexeme, used in an artistic context.
5) Occasional combinations of words are a confluence of lexemes, the compatibility of which is impossible in usus, because it contradicts the law of semantic coordination due to the lack of common semes in their lexical meanings. Due to the emergence of contextually conditioned semantic shifts in the dependent component of the phrase common semes appear.
Among the occasional word combinations there is a special group of those that are motivated by a stable combination of words and are built on the play of the ratio of the phraseological generating basis and the derivative of the occasional word combination.
Linguists distinguish different degrees of occasionality of words:
1) First degree. This group of first-degree occasionalisms includes standard, potential neoplasms that have been created and used in full correlation with the word-formation norms and rules of the modern language, for example cat-Napper.
2) Second degree. Such occasionalisms linguists consider education, which unusual, innovative to a certain extent. In addition, in this case, there may be deviations from the derivational norm of the language, which occurred in the formation of a new word, however, do not cause difficulties in semantic perception.
3) Third degree. This group of words includes purely occasional formations, completely non-standard and unusual, the semantic interpretation of which is quite time-consuming, and the deviation from the derivational norm is essential. Such formations often have no analogues even among occasionalisms.