Semantics Of Word Formation And Lexicalization

Author : Pius ten Hacken
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748689613

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Semantics of Word Formation and Lexicalization by Pius ten Hacken Pdf

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,Lívia Körtvélyessy,Pavol Štekauer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319141022

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Semantics of Complex Words by Laurie Bauer,Lívia Körtvélyessy,Pavol Štekauer Pdf

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 : ISSN
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : UCAL:B3675434

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An Outline of English Lexicology by Leonhard Lipka Pdf

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

Author : Leonhard Lipka
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Lexicology
ISBN : 3823349953

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English Lexicology by Leonhard Lipka Pdf

Author : Pavol Štekauer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027215550

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An Onomasiological Theory of English Word-formation by Pavol Štekauer Pdf

Pavol Štekauer presents an original approach to the intricate problems of English word-formation. The emphasis is on the process of coining new naming units (words). This is described by an onomasiological model, which takes as its point of departure the naming needs of a speech community, and proceeds through conceptual reflection of extra-linguistic reality and semantic analysis to the form of a new naming unit. As a result, it is the form which implements options given by semantics by means of the so-called Form-to-Meaning Assignment Principle. Word-formation is conceived of as an independent component, interrelated with the lexical component by supplying it with new naming units, and by making use of the word-formation bases of naming units stored in the Lexicon. The relation to the Syntactic component is only mediated through the Lexical component. In addition, the book presents a new approach to productivity. It is maintained that word-formation processes are as productive as syntactic processes. This radically new approach provides simple answers to a number of traditional problems of word-formation.

Author : Laurel J. Brinton,Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005-10-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1139445731

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Lexicalization and Language Change by Laurel J. Brinton,Elizabeth Closs Traugott Pdf

Lexicalization, a process of language change, has been conceptualized in a variety of ways. Broadly defined as the adoption of concepts into the lexicon, it has been viewed by syntacticians as the reverse process of grammaticalization, by morphologists as a routine process of word-formation, and by semanticists as the development of concrete meanings. In this up-to-date survey, Laurel Brinton and Elizabeth Traugott examine the various conceptualizations of lexicalization that have been presented in the literature. In light of contemporary work on grammaticalization, they then propose a new, unified model of lexicalization and grammaticalization. Their approach is illustrated with a variety of case studies from the history of English, including present participles, multi-word verbs, adverbs, and discourse markers, as well as some examples from other Indo-European languages. The first review of the various approaches to lexicalization, this book will be invaluable to students and scholars of historical linguistics and language change.

Author : Pius ten Hacken
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107099708

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The Semantics of Compounding by Pius ten Hacken Pdf

Presents three frameworks for studying morphology, offering different insights into the meaning of compounds.

Author : Marion Schulte
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783823369639

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The Semantics of Derivational Morphology by Marion Schulte Pdf

Author : Mario Brdar
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527507425

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Metonymy and Word-Formation by Mario Brdar Pdf

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.

Author : Rochelle Lieber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139454049

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Morphology and Lexical Semantics by Rochelle Lieber Pdf

Morphology and Lexical Semantics explores the meanings of morphemes and how they combine to form the meanings of complex words, including derived words (writer, unionise), compounds (dog bed, truck driver) and words formed by conversion. Rochelle Lieber discusses the lexical semantics of word formation in a systematic way, allowing the reader to explore the nature of affixal polysemy, the reasons why there are multiple affixes with the same function and the issues of mismatch between form and meaning in word formation. Using a series of case studies from English, this book develops and justifies the theoretical apparatus necessary for raising and answering many questions about the semantics of word formation. Distinguishing between a lexical semantic skeleton that is featural and hierarchically organised and a lexical semantic body that is holistic, it shows how the semantics of word formation has a paradigmatic character.

Author : Laurie Bauer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521284929

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English Word-Formation by Laurie Bauer Pdf

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 : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027294562

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Meaning Predictability in Word Formation by Pavol Štekauer Pdf

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 : Pavol Štekauer,Salvador Valera,Lívia Körtvélyessy
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443869294

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Word-Formation across Languages by Pavol Štekauer,Salvador Valera,Lívia Körtvélyessy Pdf

Research into cross-linguistic aspects and typology of word-formation has not been paid relevant and systematic attention by morphologists, and only a few articles dealing with various word-formation issues of this kind appear in journals. The chapters in this volume address this issue by discussing, on contrastive principles, important questions of word-formation in a sample of 26 languages. The focus of the book, as a whole, is on typological features of word-formation in the languages sampled. It is aimed at researchers that have an interest in word-formation in a variety of languages.

Author : Heinz J Giegerich
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : Leonhard Lipka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015012928696

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Semantic Structure and Word-formation by Leonhard Lipka Pdf

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