[PDF] Semantics Of Word Formation And Lexicalization eBook

Author : Pius ten Hacken
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 23,10 MB
Release : 2013-11-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0748689613

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In the study of word formation, the focus has often been on generating the form. In this book, the semantic aspect of the formation of new words is central. It is viewed from the perspectives of word formation rules and of lexicalization. An extensive introduction gives a historical overview of the study of the semantics of word formation and lexicalization, explaining how the different theoretical frameworks used in the contributions relate to each other. Each chapter then concentrates on a specific question about a theoretical concept or a word formation process in a particular language and adopts a theoretical framework that is appropriate to the study of this question. From general theoretical concepts of productivity and lexicalization, the focus moves to terminology, compounding, and derivation. Theoretical frameworks discussed include Jackendoff's Conceptual Structure, Langacker's Cognitive Grammar, Lieber's lexical semantic approach to word formation, Pustejovsky's Generative Lexicon, Beard's Lexeme-Morpheme-Base Morphology, The onomasiological approach to terminology and word formation.

Author : Laurie Bauer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 36,59 MB
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3319141023

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This volume offers a valuable overview of recent research into the semantic aspects of complex words through different theoretical frameworks. Contributions by experts in the field, both morphologists and psycholinguists, identify crucial areas of research, present alternative and complementary approaches to their examination from the current level of knowledge, and indicate perspectives of research into the semantics of complex words by raising important questions that need to be investigated in order to get a more comprehensive picture of the field. Recent decades have seen both extensive and intensive development of various theories of word-formation, however, the semantic aspects of complex words have, with a few notable exceptions, been rather neglected. This volume fills that gap by offering articles written by leading experts in the field from various theoretical backgrounds.

Author : Leonhard Lipka
Publisher : de Gruyter
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,28 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :

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Outline of English Lexicology: Lexical Structure, Word Semantics and Word Formation.

Author : Pavol Štekauer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 15,58 MB
Release : 2006-03-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1402035969

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This is the most comprehensive book to date on word formation in terms of scope of topics, schools and theoretical positions. All contributions were written by the leading scholars in their respective areas.

Author : Carola Trips
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 32,91 MB
Release : 2009
Category : English language
ISBN : 3484305274

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This book is the most comprehensive study to date of the development of the three suffixes -hood, -dom and -ship in the history of English. An in depth investigation from Old English to Modern English based on data from annotated corpora reveals that all three suffixes developed from nouns into today's suffixes building abstract nouns. It is shown that the rise of suffixes is triggered by semantic change. The findings are analysed in a current model of lexical semantics of word formation (Lieber 2004). The book includes an index with all formations with the three suffixes from Old English to Modern English.

Author : Pavol Štekauer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 17,68 MB
Release : 2005-03-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027294569

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This book aims to contribute to a growing interest amongst psycholinguists and morphologists in the mechanisms of meaning predictability. It presents a brand-new model of the meaning-prediction of novel, context-free naming units, relating the wordformation and wordinterpretation processes. Unlike previous studies, mostly focussed on N+N compounds, the scope of this book is much wider. It not only covers all types of complex words, but also discusses a whole range of predictability-boosting and -reducing conditions. Two measures are introduced, the Predictability Rate and the Objectified Predictability Rate, in order to compare the strength of predictable readings both within a word and relative to the most predictable readings of other coinages. Four extensive experiments indicate inter alia the equal predicting capacity of native and non-native speakers, the close interconnection between linguistic and extra-linguistic factors, the important role of prototypical semes, and the usual dominance of a single central reading.

Author : Laurie Bauer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 15,24 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521284929

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Although the illustrative material is drawn principally from English, general points are illustrated with a variety of languages to provide a new perspective on a confused and often controversial field of study.

Author : Pavol Štekauer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 34,64 MB
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 052176534X

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Fills a gap in cross-linguistic research by being the first systematic survey of the word-formation of the world's languages. Data from fifty-five world languages reveals associations between word-formation processes in genetically and geographically distinct languages.

Author : Cliff Goddard
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 19,72 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199668434

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This book presents cross-linguistic and cross-cultural investigations of word meaning from different domains of the lexicon - concrete, abstract, physical, sensory, emotional, and social. The words they consider are complex, culturally important, and basic, in a range of languages that includes English, Russian, Polish, French, Warlpiri and Malay.

Author : Mario Brdar
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 38,81 MB
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1527507424

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This book deals with the interplay between word-formation and metonymy. It shows that, like metaphor, metonymy interacts in important ways with morphological structure, but also warns us against a virtually unconstrained conception of metonymy. The central claim here is that word-formation and metonymy are distinct linguistic components that complement and mutually constrain each other. Using linguistic data from a variety of languages, the book provides ample empirical support for its thesis. It is much more than a systematic study of two neglected linguistic phenomena, for a long time thought to be unimportant by linguists. Through exposing and explaining the intricate interaction between metonymy and word formation from a cognitive linguistic perspective, the reader is presented with a sense of the amazing complexity of the development of linguistic systems. This book will be essential reading for scholars and advanced students interested in the role of figuration in grammar.