La néologie traductive en terminologie : les compositions adjectivales syntagmatiques à valeur néonymique entre fonction classifiante, hypothèse incrémentale et blocage prédicatif

This article deals with the theme of translational neology in terminology within the field of financial engineering, a discipline characterised by the high creation of new products for the benefit of investors and therefore of new terminological units. The aim of our research is twofold: first, we focus on the classifying function of adjectives as well as Humbley’s hypothesis, which postulates that new termes are created based on existing terms. It is well known that syntagmatic creation through the addition of a qualifying adjective in oblique use, a relational adjective or an epithet noun restricts the framework of nominal designation and thereby categorises it, creating subclasses characterised by predicative blocking. Our second aim is to show that, while on the one hand our sub-corpuses, for reasons linked to their construction, do not contain examples where these same adjectival uses occupy an attributive position, which confirms the hypothesis of predicative blocking, on the other hand the few marginal examples found on the Web thanks to the advanced search show that predicative blocking can be lifted when the context of the sentence and the specialised framework make it possible to recover the non-qualifying value of these adjectives in an attributive position.