Semantics Of Word Formation And Lexicalization

Author : Pius ten Hacken
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748689613
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Semantics of Word Formation and Lexicalization written by Pius ten Hacken and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319141023
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Semantics of Complex Words written by Laurie Bauer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : de Gruyter
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Outline of English Lexicology written by Leonhard Lipka and published by de Gruyter. This book was released on 1990 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outline of English Lexicology: Lexical Structure, Word Semantics and Word Formation.

Author : Leonhard Lipka
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783823349952
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Lexicology written by Leonhard Lipka and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 2002 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rochelle Lieber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139454048
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Morphology and Lexical Semantics written by Rochelle Lieber and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Pavol Štekauer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027215553
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Onomasiological Theory of English Word-formation written by Pavol Štekauer and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Carola Trips
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3484305274
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lexical Semantics and Diachronic Morphology written by Carola Trips and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the most comprehensive study to date of the development of the three suffixes -hood, -dom and -ship in the history of English. An in depth investigation from Old English to Modern English based on data from annotated corpora reveals that all three suffixes developed from nouns into today's suffixes building abstract nouns. It is shown that the rise of suffixes is triggered by semantic change. The findings are analysed in a current model of lexical semantics of word formation (Lieber 2004). The book includes an index with all formations with the three suffixes from Old English to Modern English.

Author : Rochelle Lieber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Organization of the Lexicon written by Rochelle Lieber and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pavol Štekauer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027294569
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meaning Predictability in Word Formation written by Pavol Štekauer and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2005-03-18 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Mario Brdar
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527507424
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metonymy and Word-Formation written by Mario Brdar and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.