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Creative Word-Formation Processes

Jeannette Nedoma

Author : Jeannette Nedoma
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783640329281

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Creative Word-Formation Processes by Jeannette Nedoma Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: "-", , course: Introduction to Modern English Morphology, language: English, abstract: 1. Introduction Word-formation could be found in languages all over the world. English could be seen as the most important source for other languages in every respect. A huge amount of English terms has been spread like wildfire to other countries. English seems to have a global influence on politics (English as official language), science and technology, computer, mobile phones and the Internet (e.g. technical terms), broadcasting, music (e.g. the majority of English songs on the “German radio” is obvious), film industries and cinemas (e.g. the majority of English movies or English movies in original speech in German cinemas).

Creativity in Word Formation and Word Interpretation

Lívia Körtvélyessy,Pavol Štekauer,Pavol Kačmár

Author : Lívia Körtvélyessy,Pavol Štekauer,Pavol Kačmár
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781316511695

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Creativity in Word Formation and Word Interpretation by Lívia Körtvélyessy,Pavol Štekauer,Pavol Kačmár Pdf

The pioneering new study presents an interdisciplinary examination of how we use creativity to form and interpret new words.

An overview paper about: Morphology (word-formation processes)

Hanno Frey

Author : Hanno Frey
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783638205245

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An overview paper about: Morphology (word-formation processes) by Hanno Frey Pdf

Essay from the year 2000 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7 (A-), University of Hamburg (FB Anglistics), course: Seminar II, language: English, abstract: This paper deals with a fundamental branch of linguistic research. The term fundamental is justified insofar as the ability to analyse a continuous string of sounds into discrete units constitutes a central part of language comprehension. The analysis of morphological structures is situated right at the basic level of a language because it reveals deeper insight into how the smallest meaningful parts of a language are organized. A morphological description includes information about the internal structure of words, the rules that govern these structures and the relationship among words. Furthermore, the linguists′ interest in morphology is not just concerned with a mere description of that what already exists – it is also aimed to show in how far a language may be viewed as potentially creative with regard to the invention of new words on the basis of a given set of rules. This process is traditionally referred to as productivity and equated with “linguistic creativity” or “creativity in language”. The corresponding field of linguistic reserach deals with the study of words which goes beyond the limitations of dictionary entries. In this context words, phrases and texts must be seen as larger, complex or non-primitive units that are built up from morphemes in successive stages.

Word-Formation in the World's Languages

Pavol Štekauer,Salvador Valera,Lívia Kőrtvélyessy

Author : Pavol Štekauer,Salvador Valera,Lívia Kőrtvélyessy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521765343

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Word-Formation in the World's Languages by Pavol Štekauer,Salvador Valera,Lívia Kőrtvélyessy Pdf

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.

Creative Compounding in English

Réka Benczes

Author : Réka Benczes
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027293183

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Creative Compounding in English by Réka Benczes Pdf

Metaphorical and metonymical compounds – novel and lexicalised ones alike – are remarkably abundant in language. Yet how can we be sure that when using an expression such as land fishing in order to speak about metal detecting, the referent will be immediately understood even if the hearer had not been previously familiar with the compound? Accordingly, this book sets out to explore whether the semantics of metaphorical and metonymical noun–noun combinations can be systematically analysed within a theoretical framework, where systematicity pertains to regularities in both the cognitive processes and the products of these processes, that is, the compounds themselves. Backed up by recent psycholinguistic evidence, the book convincingly demonstrates that such compounds are not semantically opaque as it has been formerly claimed: they can in fact be analysed and accounted for within a cognitive linguistic framework, by the combined application of metaphor, metonymy, blending, profile determinacy and schema theory; and represent the creative and associative word formation processes that we regularly apply in everyday language.

Cognitive Perspectives on Word Formation

Alexander Onysko,Sascha Michel

Author : Alexander Onysko,Sascha Michel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110223606

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While cognitive linguistics has become established as a comprehensive research paradigm over the last three decades, it has so far hardly contributed to investigations into processes of lexical creation as traditionally captured in research on word formation. In light of this, the volume at hand is the first one to take a step ahead towards illuminating diverse aspects of word formation from cognitive perspectives. The book combines contributions to the 2nd International Cognitive Linguistics Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association with a selection of invited papers by scholars working on issues of word formation and cognitive linguistics. This selection is guided by pluralism in both methodology and topics. Thus, some contributions are of a primarily theoretical nature discussing, for example, recombinance as a model of word formation and a taxonomy of word formation processes as construction types. Several articles address interface issues such as word formation and phrasal constructions, word formation and inflection, as well as phonology and word formational patterns. The majority of the studies focuses on individual types of word formation (compounding, affixation, and conversion), and they contribute to reframing our understanding of these processes. With a focus on mostly Germanic languages (Afrikaans, Dutch, English, German, Luxembourgish, and Norwegian), data-driven analyses include corpus linguistic investigations, elicited data, psycholinguistic experiments, and computational linguistic applications. A few contributions follow a mainly introspective path of reasoning based on the discussion of selected examples as in the analysis of creative compounds. Overall, the volume provides a rich array of topics emerging under the umbrella of cognitive linguistic thought and established patterns and processes of word formation. The various studies add to a yet marginal body of research in cognitive word formation and, thus, advance our awareness about the benefits of applying cognitive linguistic thoughts for investigating processes of lexical creation.

New Insights into the Language and Cognition Interface

Rafał Augustyn,Agnieszka Mierzwińska-Hajnos

Author : Rafał Augustyn,Agnieszka Mierzwińska-Hajnos
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781527521889

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New Insights into the Language and Cognition Interface by Rafał Augustyn,Agnieszka Mierzwińska-Hajnos Pdf

This book brings together, on the one hand, theoretical assumptions in cognitive linguistics and, on the other, empirical studies on language. It portrays, in a compact manner, the latest state of the dynamically changing research in five areas of cognitive explorations of language, including conceptual blending, discourse and narratology, multimodality, linguistic creativity, and construction grammar. These are shown mainly from the perspective of two languages: Polish and English. The volume will be of essential value to both students and scholars, as well as anyone interested in the application of current trends developed within cognitive linguistics to the empirical study of language and language-related phenomena.

From Word-Formation Rules to Creating Paradigms

Gabriela Bara

Author : Gabriela Bara
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783640554362

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Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, Technical University of Braunschweig (Englisches Seminar), course: Language Acquisition: Vocabulary and Modality, language: English, abstract: In the language acquisition process, children acquire words by simultaneously trying to comprehend how language functions and expressing forms which they have learned for meanings they wish to convey. Children are very skillful at identifying words in the stream of sounds, attributing meaning to them, segmenting them into smaller parts, and detecting rules of word structure. When they create words themselves, they use everything they have learned at different stages of acquisition, by following the rules they have discovered in language. As children learn more words, they are able to identify patterns and certain regularities in the lexicon. They make use of these patterns and build paradigms, i.e. they use the same templates to connect words which are related in form and meaning. By creating forms for specific meanings, they coin words which fit into an already existing paradigm. Paradigms reflect a certain regularity within language, and at the same time, reveal children’s need to organize and compress the huge amount of words that they encounter. Despite children’s skillfulness in learning language and their ability to analyze the structure of language and its regularities, despite their mastery in creating innovative complex words that follow principles of word-formation, not all the words children produce are legitimate forms. The purpose of this paper is to identify the reasons why errors occur in children’s production of complex words. The second part of the paper will deal with a theoretical analysis of complex words, from the internal structure of words to main types of word-formation like derivation and compounding, and finally, will focus on establishing rules of word-building that children identify in language and also use in their word production. The following section will treat children’s use of complex words, the word-formation processes they favor, the types of words they find easier to create, as well as the principles that they follow in their word creation. This part will close with a thematization of paradigms. The fourth part will analyze errors, and will concentrate on elucidating the purpose of this paper, namely, the question referring to the source of error production in children’s creation of complex words. As will be revealed later in the paper, many of the illegitimate forms that children create are a result of non-permissible generalizations which reflect the regulating role of paradigms.

Recent Trends in English Word-Formation

Bastian Heynen

Author : Bastian Heynen
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-23
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783640546435

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Recent Trends in English Word-Formation by Bastian Heynen Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1.0, University of Dusseldorf "Heinrich Heine" (English Linguistics), course: English Word-Formation, language: English, abstract: This paper will discuss recent trends in English word formation. To elaborate on the subject it starts to define what word formation is and how it fits into morphology, the part of linguistics dealing with words and their basic units. In the first part it will discuss basic terms and promote the necessary understanding of word analysis. We will discuss what productivity is and what constitutes a new word. Included is also a short introduction in the theory of the lexicon, where the so called lexemes are stored. The second part will go on with the introduction of recent neologisms that I found interesting, using the circumstance to discuss the basic patterns of word formation. It is not a complete list of recent neologisms, nor is it a statistical analysis of corpora. I will elaborate on certain aspects of word formation patterns with chosen examples. Most neologisms dealt with in this paper can be found in Maxwell (2006); few exceptions can be found the internet. We will also look for irregularities and ask ourselves whether there are any cases in which new words refer to old words. In the last part of the paper I will have a look at the sources of word formation. Are there any fields in which new words are especially frequent? Are those fields easy to distinguish from each other? Why are these fields important? The intention of this paper is to give a summary of recent development concerning new words and what such a development might mean to us.

Blends. A creative means of word-formation

Carmen Peresich

Author : Carmen Peresich
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783656880943

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Blends. A creative means of word-formation by Carmen Peresich Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1, Klagenfurt University (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Topics in Linguistics: Syntax and Morphology, language: English, abstract: Blending is anything but a new phenomenon in the English language. This is proven by the fact that the word brunch, which is one of the most widely known blends, was first recorded in 1896 - more than 100 years ago (Quinion 2014). However, only over the last couple of decades has blending become a very popular word-formation process. Today, in the English lexicon a large number of blends can be found which are no longer recognized as such since they have been in everyday use for quite a long time (Katamba 1994: 184). This can be explained by the fact that blends tend to be abbreviations in the beginning and, due to their word-like appearance, are lexicalized over time (Hadžiahmetović-Jurida 2006: 283). Although blending plays a significant role in terms of word-formation, it is hardly mentioned in monographs focusing on this particular aspect of morphology. This paper aims to explore the rules that determine the creation of blends as well as to have a closer look on two ways of categorizing them.

Handbook of Japanese Lexicon and Word Formation

Taro Kageyama,Hideki Kishimoto

Author : Taro Kageyama,Hideki Kishimoto
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 747 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781501500817

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Handbook of Japanese Lexicon and Word Formation by Taro Kageyama,Hideki Kishimoto Pdf

This volume presents a comprehensive survey of the lexicon and word formation processes in contemporary Japanese, with particular emphasis on their typologically characteristic features and their interactions with syntax and semantics. Through contacts with a variety of languages over more than two thousand years of history, Japanese has developed a complex vocabulary system that is composed of four lexical strata: (i) native Japanese, (ii) mimetic, (iii) Sino-Japanese, and (iv) foreign (especially English). This hybrid composition of the lexicon, coupled with the agglutinative character of the language by which morphology is closely associated with syntax, gives rise to theoretically intriguing interactions with word formation processes that are not easily found with inflectional, isolate, or polysynthetic types of languages.

Rethinking Linguistic Creativity in Non-native Englishes

Sandra C. Deshors,Sandra Götz,Samantha Laporte

Author : Sandra C. Deshors,Sandra Götz,Samantha Laporte
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263520

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Rethinking Linguistic Creativity in Non-native Englishes by Sandra C. Deshors,Sandra Götz,Samantha Laporte Pdf

At a time when the paradigm gap (Sridhar & Sridhar 1986) between the EFL and ESL research areas is attracting much scholarly attention, the contributions in the current volume explore this gap from the perspective of linguistic innovations across the two different types of non-native Englishes. In this endeavour, this volume unveils the many facets of linguistic innovations in non-native English varieties and explores the fine line between learners’ erroneous versus creative use of a target language. Adopting empirical, corpus-based approaches to portray linguistic innovations characteristic of EFL and ESL varieties, the contributions show how the interaction of linguistic and social forces influences the development of novel linguistic forms in both endonormative ESL contexts and exonormative EFL contexts. This volume is of relevance to linguists who are interested in the features of non-native English and who wish to gain a better understanding of the nature of innovations along the EFL – ESL continuum.Originally published as a special issue of International Journal of Learner Corpora Research 2:2 (2016).

Word-Formation in English

Ingo Plag

Author : Ingo Plag
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521525632

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Word-Formation in English by Ingo Plag Pdf

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.

Complex Words

Lívia Körtvélyessy,Pavol Štekauer

Author : Lívia Körtvélyessy,Pavol Štekauer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108490290

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Complex Words by Lívia Körtvélyessy,Pavol Štekauer Pdf

Drawing on innovative research, the book reveals the wealth and breadth of the study of word-formation, both theoretically and empirically.

Lexical Creativity, Texts and Contexts

Judith Munat

Author : Judith Munat
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027291752

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Lexical Creativity, Texts and Contexts by Judith Munat Pdf

The coining of novel lexical items and the creative manipulation of existing words and expressions is heavily dependent on contextual factors, including the semantic, stylistic, textual and social environments in which they occur. The twelve specialists contributing to this collection aim to illuminate creativity in word formation with respect to functional discourse roles, but also examine ‘critical creativity’ determined by language policy, as well as diachronic phonetic variation in creatively-coined words. The data, based either on large corpora or smaller hand-collected samples, is drawn from advertising, the daily press, electronic communication, literature, spoken interaction, cartoons, lexical ontologies and style guides. The coining of novel lexical items and the creative manipulation of existing words and expressions is heavily dependent on contextual factors, including the semantic, stylistic, textual and social environments in which they occur. The twelve specialists contributing to this collection aim to illuminate creativity in word formation with respect to functional discourse roles, but also examine ‘critical creativity’ determined by language policy, as well as diachronic phonetic variation in creatively-coined words. The data, based either on large corpora or smaller hand-collected samples, is drawn from advertising, the daily press, electronic communication, literature, spoken interaction, cartoons, lexical ontologies and style guides. Each study analyses novel formations in relation to their contexts of use and inevitably leads to the crucial question of creativity vs. productivity. By focussing on creative lexical formations at the level of parole, these studies provide insights into morphological theory at the level of langue, and ultimately seek to explain lexical creativity as a function of language use.

Creative Word Formation Processes

Creative Word-Formation Processes by Jeannette Nedoma Pdf

Creativity in Word Formation and Word Interpretation by Lívia Körtvélyessy,Pavol Štekauer,Pavol Kačmár Pdf

An overview paper about: Morphology (word-formation processes) by Hanno Frey Pdf

Word-Formation in the World's Languages by Pavol Štekauer,Salvador Valera,Lívia Kőrtvélyessy Pdf

Creative Compounding in English by Réka Benczes Pdf

Cognitive Perspectives on Word Formation by Alexander Onysko,Sascha Michel Pdf

New Insights into the Language and Cognition Interface by Rafał Augustyn,Agnieszka Mierzwińska-Hajnos Pdf

From Word-Formation Rules to Creating Paradigms by Gabriela Bara Pdf

Recent Trends in English Word-Formation by Bastian Heynen Pdf

Blends. A creative means of word-formation by Carmen Peresich Pdf

Handbook of Japanese Lexicon and Word Formation by Taro Kageyama,Hideki Kishimoto Pdf

Rethinking Linguistic Creativity in Non-native Englishes by Sandra C. Deshors,Sandra Götz,Samantha Laporte Pdf

Word-Formation in English by Ingo Plag Pdf

Complex Words by Lívia Körtvélyessy,Pavol Štekauer Pdf

Lexical Creativity, Texts and Contexts by Judith Munat Pdf

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