[PDF] Word Formation In Context eBook

Author : Manoochehr Tavangar
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 11,24 MB
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1527521729

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This fascinating book treats the use of words from a completely new perspective. Far from being purely abstract entities, words are believed to emerge from an interaction between morphological, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic components. For this reason, the book draws from a vast spectrum of naturally occurring texts representing almost every style, register, and genre. It uses an extremely wide variety of language, and provides a key to help readers check their answers to the questions it poses.

Author : Pavol Štekauer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 17,44 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 : Ingo Plag
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 15,95 MB
Release : 2003-10-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521525633

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This textbook provides an accessible introduction to the study of word-formation, that is, the ways in which new words are built on the bases of other words (e.g. happy - happy-ness), focusing on English. The book's didactic aim is to enable students with little or no prior linguistic knowledge to do their own practical analyses of complex words. Readers are familiarized with the necessary methodological tools to obtain and analyze relevant data and are shown how to relate their findings to theoretical problems and debates. The book is not written in the perspective of a particular theoretical framework and draws on insights from various research traditions, reflecting important methodological and theoretical developments in the field. It is a textbook directed towards university students of English at all levels. It can also serve as a source book for teachers and advanced students, and as an up-to-date reference concerning many word-formation processes in English.

Author : Pavol Štekauer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 49,74 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 : 23,94 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 : Chu-Ren Huang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 12,20 MB
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1316395251

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A Reference Grammar of Chinese is a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the linguistic structure of Chinese, covering all of the important linguistic features of the language and incorporating insights gained from research in Chinese linguistics over the past thirty years. With contributions from twenty-two leading Chinese linguists, this authoritative guide uses large-scale corpora to provide authentic examples based on actual language use. The accompanying online example databases ensure that a wide range of exemplars are readily available and also allow for new usages to be updated. This design offers a new paradigm for a reference grammar where generalizations can be cross-checked with additional examples and also provide resources for both linguistic studies and language learning. Featuring bilingual term lists, this reference grammar helps readers to access relevant literature in both English and Chinese and is an invaluable reference for learners, teachers and researchers in Chinese linguistics and language processing.

Author : Pavol Štekauer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 11,95 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 : Pius ten Hacken
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 28,37 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 : ten Hacken Pius ten Hacken
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 43,18 MB
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1474448224

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Drawing on detailed case studies across a range of languages, including English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Russian, Lithuanian and Greek, this book examines the different factors that determine the outcome of the interaction between borrowing and word formation. Historically, borrowing has largely been studied from etymological and lexicographical perspectives and word formation has been included in morphology. However, this book focuses on their mutual influence and interaction. Bringing together a range of contributors, each chapter illustrates how borrowing and word formation are in competition as alternative naming processes, while also showing how they can influence each other. The case studies are framed by an introduction that describes the general background and a conclusion that summarises the main findings.