Morphological Productivity

Author : Laurie Bauer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001-05-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139428729

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Morphological Productivity by Laurie Bauer Pdf

Why are there more English words ending in -ness than ending in -ity? What is it about some endings that makes them more widely usable than others? Can we measure the differences in the facility with which the various affixes are used? Does the difference in facility reflect a difference in the way we treat words containing these affixes in the brain? These are the questions examined in this book. Morphological productivity has, over the centuries, been a major factor in providing the huge vocabulary of English and remains one of the most contested areas in the study of word-formation and structure. This book takes an eclectic approach to the topic, applying the findings for morphology to syntax and phonology. Bringing together the results of twenty years' work in the field, it provides new insights and considers a wide range of linguistic and psycholinguistic evidence.

Author : Ingo Plag
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110802863

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Morphological Productivity by Ingo Plag Pdf

The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.

Author : Francesco Gardani
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004244658

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Dynamics of Morphological Productivity by Francesco Gardani Pdf

In Dynamics of Morphological Productivity, Francesco Gardani explores the evolution of the productivity of the noun inflectional classes of Latin and Old Italian, covering a span of almost 2,000 years – an absolute novelty for the theory of diachrony and for Latin and Italo-Romance linguistics. By providing an original set of criteria for measuring productivity, based on the investigation of loanword integration, conversions, and class shift, Gardani provides a substantial contribution to the theory of inflection, as well as to the study of the morphological integration of loanwords. The result is a wealth of empirical facts, including data from the contact languages Etruscan, Ancient Greek, Germanic, Arabic, Byzantine Greek, Old French and Provençal, accompanied by brilliant and groundbreaking analyses.

Author : Jaap van Marle
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111558387

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On the paradigmatic dimension of morphological creativity by Jaap van Marle Pdf

Author : Sabine Arndt-Lappe,Angelika Braun,Claudine Moulin,Esme Winter-Froemel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110498165

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Expanding the Lexicon by Sabine Arndt-Lappe,Angelika Braun,Claudine Moulin,Esme Winter-Froemel Pdf

The creation of new lexical units and patterns has been studied in different research frameworks, focusing on either system-internal or system-external aspects, from which no comprehensive view has emerged. The volume aims to fill this gap by studying dynamic processes in the lexicon – understood in a wide sense as not being necessarily limited to the word level – by bringing together approaches directed to morphological productivity as well as approaches analyzing general types of lexical innovation and the role of discourse-related factors. The papers deal with ongoing changes as well as with historical processes of change in different languages and reflect on patterns and specific subtypes of lexical innovation as well as on their external conditions and the speakers’ motivations for innovating. Moreover, the diffusion and conventionalization of innovations will be addressed. In this way, the volume contributes to understanding the complex interplay of structural, cognitive and functional factors in the lexicon as a highly dynamic domain.

Author : Jesús Fernández Domínguez
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3039118080

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Productivity in English Word-formation by Jesús Fernández Domínguez Pdf

This book is a contribution to the study of morphological productivity, that is, the property of word-formation processes whereby new words are created to satisfy a naming need. It presents an up-to-date picture of this phenomenon, characterising its major attributes and addressing neighbouring theoretical concepts like availability, profitability or lexicalisation. Links are also established between those notions and N+N compounding, a word-formation process regarded as very productive but traditionally overlooked in studies of this type. Unlike other productivity surveys, mostly directed at affixation, a corpus of N+N compounds is here compiled to which the mainstream models of productivity are applied. This allows to detect the pros and cons of those proposals and to propose a model of productivity. Two measures, Indicator of Profitability (π) and Trend of Profitability (Π), are introduced which can be applied across word-formation processes and are able to compute their productivity based on semantic categories.

Author : Jenny Audring,Francesca Masini
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 751 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199668984

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The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory by Jenny Audring,Francesca Masini Pdf

Morphology, the science of words, is a complex theoretical landscape, where a multitude of frameworks, each with their own tenets and formalism, compete for the explanation of linguistic facts. The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory is a comprehensive guide through this jungle of morphological theories. It provides a rich and up-to-date overview of theoretical frameworks, from Structuralism to Optimality Theory and from Minimalism to Construction Morphology...

Author : Rochelle Lieber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521895491

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Introducing Morphology by Rochelle Lieber Pdf

A lively introduction to the study of how words are put together.

Author : Mark Aronoff,Kirsten Fudeman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781444351767

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What is Morphology? by Mark Aronoff,Kirsten Fudeman Pdf

What is Morphology? is a concise and critical introduction to the central ideas of morphology, which has been revised and expanded to include additional material on morphological productivity and the mental lexicon, experimental and computational methods, and new teaching material. Introduces the fundamental aspects of morphology to students with minimal background in linguistics Includes additional material on morphological productivity and the mental lexicon, and experimental and computational methods Features new and revised exercises as well as suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter Equips students with the skills to analyze a wide breadth of classic morphological issues through engaging examples Uses cross-linguistic data throughout to illustrate concepts, specifically referencing Kujamaat Joola, a Senegalese language Includes a new answer key, available for instructors online at http://www.wiley.com/go/aronoff

Author : Shmuel Bolozky
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004348431

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Measuring Productivity in Word Formation by Shmuel Bolozky Pdf

Morphological productivity is the likelihood of a morphological pattern being used or comprehended in new word formation. Three methods of measuring productivity of word formation are proposed productivity tests (open-ended and judgment tasks), dictionary comparison (newer with older dictionaries, supplements with earlier versions), and the ratio of hapax legomena to tokens in corpora. Processes which score highly by all three criteria can safely be regarded as productive. The model is examined in light of data from Israeli Hebrew, which as a Semitic language offers a rich array of discontinuous and linear derivation patterns. The Hebrew data also support the claims that in essence, lexical formation is semantically based; that it is constrained by a requirement for distinctiveness; and that it may vary significantly with the type of derivation base.

Author : Dominiek Sandra,Marcus Taft
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317933045

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Morphological Structure, Lexical Representation and Lexical Access (RLE Linguistics C: Applied Linguistics) by Dominiek Sandra,Marcus Taft Pdf

The main concern of this work is whether morphemes play a role in the lexical representation and processing of several types of polymorphemic words and, more particularly, at what precise representational and processing level. The book comprises two theoretical contributions and a number of empirical ones. One theoretical paper discusses several possible motivations for a morphologically organised mental lexicon (like the economy of representation view, and the efficiency of processing view), and lays out the weaknesses that are associated with some of these motivations. The other theoretical paper offers an interactive-activation reinterpretation of the findings that were originally reported within the lexical search framework. The empirical papers together cover a relatively broad array of language types and mainly deal with visual word recognition in normals in the context of lexical morphology (derived and compound words). Evidence is reported on the function of stems and affixes as processing units in prefixed and suffixed derivations. The role of semantic transparency in the lexical representation of compounds is studied, as is the effect of orthographic ambiguity on the parsing of novel compounds. The inflection-derivational distinction is approached in the context of Finnish, a highly agglutinative language with much richer morphology than the languages usually studied in psycholinguistic experiments on polymorphemic words. Two other contributions also approach the study object in the context of relatively uncharted domains: one presents data on Chinese, a language which uses a different script-type (logographic) from the languages that are usually studied (alphabetic script), and another one presents data on language production.

Author : G.E. Booij,Jaap van Marle
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401125161

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Yearbook of Morphology 1991 by G.E. Booij,Jaap van Marle Pdf

MARK ARONOFF The articles included in this section represent recent research on morpholog ical classes which has been independently performed by a number of investi gators. This work was presented at a symposium that was organized as part of the 1990-1991 annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in Chicago in January 1991. Our aim in presenting this work is twofold: on the one hand, we would like to encourage others interested in morphology to pursue the types of research that we present. This is especially important in the study of morphological classes, which, while they are widespread among the languages of the world, are also highly diverse and often quite complex. On the other hand, we hope to convince researchers in adjacent areas to provide a place for autonomous morphology in their general picture of the workings of language and to pay closer attention to the intricacies of the interactionbetweenmorphologyand theseareas.

Author : Geert Booij
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192575555

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The Morphology of Dutch by Geert Booij Pdf

This volume provides a detailed and comprehensive description of the morphological system of Dutch. Following an introduction to the basic assumptions of morphological theory, separate chapters are devoted to the inflectional system, derivation, and compounding, the interface between morphology and phonology, the interaction between morphology and syntax, and, new to this edition, a more detailed study of the features of separable complex verbs. Geert Booij demonstrates in this book that the morphology of Dutch poses multiple interesting descriptive and theoretical challenges. The volume also contributes to ongoing discussions on the nature and representation of morphological processes, the role of paradigmatic relations between words - and between words and phrases - and the interaction between morphology, phonology, and syntax. This second, fully revised edition has been updated throughout with expanded coverage of Dutch morphological phenomena and results from new research. Alongside a brand new chapter on separable complex verbs, it also includes a more sophisticated analysis of the relation between morphology and syntax, and an introduction to the basic tenets of Construction Morphology.

Author : Geert E. Booij,Christian Lehmann,Joachim Mugdan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1001 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110194012

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Morphologie / Morphology. 1. Halbband by Geert E. Booij,Christian Lehmann,Joachim Mugdan Pdf

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Author : Anne Schröder
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : English language
ISBN : 9783823365877

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On the Productivity of Verbal Prefixation in English by Anne Schröder Pdf