Lexical Strata In English

Author : Heinz J. Giegerich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1999-09-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139425223

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Lexical Strata in English by Heinz J. Giegerich Pdf

In Lexical Strata in English, Heinz Giegerich investigates the way in which alternations in the sound patterns of words interact with the morphological processes of the language. Drawing examples from English and German, he uncovers and spells out in detail the principles of 'lexical morphology and phonology', a theory that has in recent years become increasingly influential in linguistics. Giegerich queries many of the assumptions made in that theory, overturning some and putting others on a principled footing. What emerges is a formally coherent and highly constrained theory of the lexicon - the theory of 'base-driven' stratification - which predicts the number of lexical strata from the number of base-category distinctions recognized in the morphology of the language. Finally, he offers accounts of some central phenomena in the phonology of English (including vowel 'reduction', [r]-sandhi and syllabification), which both support and are uniquely facilitated by this new theory.

Author : Taro Kageyama,Hideki Kishimoto
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 747 pages
File Size : 46,6 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.

Author : Sylvain Auroux
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 909 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Historical linguistics
ISBN : 9783110167368

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Geschichte Der Sprachwissenschaften by Sylvain Auroux Pdf

Author : Sylvain Auroux,E.F.K. Koerner,Hans-Josef Niederehe,Kees Versteegh
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 910 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110199826

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History of the Language Sciences / Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaften / Histoire des sciences du langage. 3. Teilband by Sylvain Auroux,E.F.K. Koerner,Hans-Josef Niederehe,Kees Versteegh Pdf

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Author : Rochelle Lieber,Pavol Stekauer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191617263

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The Oxford Handbook of Compounding by Rochelle Lieber,Pavol Stekauer Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive review of theoretical work on the linguistics and psycholinguistics of compound words and combines it with a series of surveys of compounding in a variety of languages from a wide range of language families. Compounding is an effective way to create and express new meanings. Compound words are segmentable into their constituents so that new items can often be understood on first presentation. However, as keystone, keynote, and keyboard, and breadboard, sandwich-board, and mortarboard show, the relation between components is often far from straightforward. The question then arises, as to how far compound sequences are analysed at each encounter and how far they are stored in the brain as single lexical items? The nature and processing of compounds thus offer an unusually direct route to how language operates in the mind, as well as providing the means of investigating important aspects of morphology, and lexical semantics, and insights to child language acquisition and the organization of the mental lexicon. This book is the first to report on the state of the art on these and other central topics, including the classification and typology of compounds, and cross-linguistic research on the subject in different frameworks and from synchronic and diachronic perspectives.

Author : Bastian Immanuel Wefes
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783656274988

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Challenging Lexical Morphology by Bastian Immanuel Wefes Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Wuppertal (Fachbereich Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften), course: Morphology, language: English, abstract: In this term paper I examine several approaches to the bundling of both morphological and phonological rules, which is commonly referred to as stratification and which is the basis for the lexical morphology and phonology model. Therefore I first introduce the idea of strata with respect to their respective tasks and the order which they usually appear in (section 2). In the following I show up the first (minor) challenges within the model that eventually help to refine it (section 3). Furthermore I display problems that have not yet been solved, meaning inconsistencies within the stratification processes as they have been introduced (section 4). Right before the conclusion I briefly introduce a different approach (by Goldsmith 1990), which contradicts most of the remarks in the previous sections, but can eventually be refuted quite easily (section 5). In the conclusion I point out that the lexical morphology and phonology model has its problems (like probably nearly any other linguistic theory), but is most likely to be the most appropriate model for this motivation.

Author : Heinz J Giegerich
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781474408158

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Lexical Structures by Heinz J Giegerich Pdf

A monograph about structural entities originating in the lexicon - that is, about word structure - as well as about the structural characteristics of the lexicon as a module of formal grammar.

Author : John Tillotson Jensen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027236005

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English Phonology by John Tillotson Jensen Pdf

This is a general discussion of the phonology of English within the frameworks of lexical, metrical, and prosodic phonology. It not only presents a synthesis of current approaches but also reconciles their discrepancies and presents critical commentary. There is a discussion of current theories, segment and syllable structure, stress, and prosodic categories and their role in determining the application of segmental rules. Two chapters discuss lexical phonology as divided into a cyclic and a postcyclic stratum, while the final chapter discusses postlexical phonology and some other approaches. The book includes exercises and can be used as an undergraduate or graduate textbook; at the same time, it is a valuable research tool for phonologists.

Author : Heinz J Giegerich
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748630554

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Lexical Structures by Heinz J Giegerich Pdf

An original study of both structural entitiesoriginating in the lexicon, and the structural characteristics of thelexicon as a module of formal grammar, this book makes two contributions toour understanding of the formal grammar of English. Firstly, it presents acoherent theory of 'compounding' in English. There is a long-standingbut unresolved dispute in the literature as to whether certain constructions(e.g. LONDON ROAD, DENTAL TREATMENT) are compound words or syntacticphrases. The question is important because in other cases the distinction isclear-cut (RING ROAD, FREE TREATMENT respectively), and because it impingeson central assumptions regarding the organisation of the grammar.Secondly,the book suggests an alternative to the commonly assumed sharp division ofthe grammar into the 'lexicon' and the 'syntax'. The lexicon-syntaxdistinction facilitates important new insights in the nature of compoundingin English. However, Heinz Giegerich argues that the Lexicalist assumptionof a sharp divide between the modules cannot be upheld: the two modulesoverlap, such that there are constructions in English that aresimultaneously compound and phrase. He suggests an alternative, tripartite,structure comprising three successive, and significantly overlapping,modules: the lexicon proper, the morphology and the syntax.The bookillustrates a grammar that is rather different from that envisaged inLexicalism (while still retaining that theory's basic insights) andprovides a better understanding of some of the most recalcitrant problems inEnglish word formation.

Author : Steven N. Dworkin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191623851

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A History of the Spanish Lexicon by Steven N. Dworkin Pdf

This history of the Spanish lexicon is written from the interacting perspectives of linguistic and cultural change and in the light of advances in the study of language contact and lexical change. The author describes the language inherited from spoken Latin in the Iberian Peninsula during six centuries of Roman occupation and examines the degree to which it imported words from the languages - of which only Basque survives - of pre-Roman Spain. He then shows how Germanic words were imported either indirectly through Latin or Old French or directly by contact with the Visigoths. He describes the importation of Arabisms following the eighth-century Arab conquest of Spain, distinguishing those documented in medieval sources from those adopted for everyday use, many of which survive in modern Spanish. He considers the influence of Old French and Old Provençal and identifies late direct and indirect borrowings from Latin, including the Italian elements taken up during the Renaissance. After outlining minor influences from languages such as Flemish, Portuguese, and Catalan, Professor Dworkin examines the effects on the lexicon of contact between Spanish and the indigenous languages of South and Central America, and the impact of contact with English. The book is aimed at advanced students and scholars of Spanish linguistics and will interest specialists in Hispanic literary and cultural studies.

Author : Charles W. Kreidler
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0415237890

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Phonology by Charles W. Kreidler Pdf

Phonology: Critical Concepts, the first such anthology to appear in thirty years and the largest ever published, brings together over a hundred previously published book chapters and articles from professional journals. These have been chosen for their importance in the exploration of theoretical questions, with some preference for essays that are not easily accessible.Divided into sections, each part is preceded by a brief introduction which aims to point out the problems addressed by the various articles and show their relations to one another.-

Author : K.P. Mohanan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789400937192

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The Theory of Lexical Phonology by K.P. Mohanan Pdf

This book contains some of the material which originally appeared in my Ph. D. thesis Lexical Phonology, submitted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but it can hardly be called a revised version of the thesis. The theory that I propose here is in many ways radically different from the one that I proposed in the thesis, and there is a great deal of new data and analyses from English and Malayalam. Chapter VI is so new that I haven't even had the time to try it out on my friends. As everyone knows, research is a collective enterprise, even though an individual's name appears on the first page of the book or article. I would think of this book as a joint project involving dozens of people, in which I acted as the project coordinator, collecting suggestions from a wide variety of sources. Four major influences on what the book contains were Morris Halle, Paul Kiparsky, Mark Liberman, and Joan Bresnan. I learned the ropes of doing research on phonology, phonetics, and morphology from them, and almost everything that I discuss in this book owes its shape ultimately to one of them. Among the others who contributed generously to this book are: Jay Keyser, James Harris, Douglas Pulleyblank, Diana Archangeli, Donca Steriade, Elizabeth Selkirk, Francois Dell, Noam Chomsky, Philip Lesourd, Mohammed Guerssel, Michel Kenstovicz, Raj Singh, Will Leben, Joe Perkell, Victor Zue, Paroo Nihalani. P. Madhavan, and Stephanie Shattuck-Hafnagel.

Author : Rochelle Lieber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108832489

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Introducing Morphology by Rochelle Lieber Pdf

"Morphology is the study of how words are put together. A lively introduction to the subject, this textbook is intended for undergraduates with relatively little background in linguistics. Providing data from a wide variety of languages, it includes hands-on activities such as "challenge boxes," designed to encourage students to gather their own data and analyze it, work with data on websites, perform simple experiments, and discuss topics with each other. There is also an extensive introduction to the terms and concepts necessary for analyzing words. Topics such as the mental lexicon, derivation, compounding, inflection, morphological typology, productivity, and the interface of morphology with syntax and phonology expose students to the whole scope of the field. Unlike other textbooks it anticipates the question "Is it a real word?" and tackles it head on by looking at the distinction between dictionaries and the mental lexicon. This Third Edition has been thoroughly updated, including new examples and exercises as well as a detailed introduction to using linguistic corpora to find and analyze morphological data"--

Author : Stela Manova
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190210434

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Affix Ordering Across Languages and Frameworks by Stela Manova Pdf

This volume advances our understanding of how word structure in terms of affix ordering is organized in the languages of the world. Affix ordering is a central issue in linguistic theory and there has been much research on the topic. The present volume contributes novel data from typologically diverse well-studied and lesser-studied languages as well as original analyses, and covers the major approaches in the field. Unlike previous research, most of the contributions in this collection consider more than one language.

Author : John T. Jensen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027275172

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Principles of Generative Phonology by John T. Jensen Pdf

Principles of Generative Phonology is a basic, thorough introduction to phonological theory and practice. It aims to provide a firm foundation in the theory of distinctive features, phonological rules and rule ordering, which is essential to be able to appreciate recent developments and discussions in phonological theory. Chapter 1 is a review of phonetics; chapter 2 discusses contrast and distribution, with emphasis on rules as the mechanism for describing distributions; chapter 3 introduces distinctive features, natural classes, and redundancy; chapter 4 builds on the concept of rules and shows how these can account for alternations; chapter 5 demonstrates the use of rule ordering; chapter 6 discusses abstractness and underlying representations; chapter 7 discusses post-SPE developments, serving as a prelude to more advanced texts. Each chapter includes exercises to guide the student in the application of the principles introduced in that chapter and to encourage thinking about theoretical issues. The text has been classroom tested.