New Impulses in Word-Formation

New Impulses in Word-Formation
Title New Impulses in Word-Formation PDF eBook
Author Susan Olsen
Publisher Helmut Buske Verlag
Pages 404
Release 2016-10-31
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 3875488024

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This special issue entitled "New Impulses in Word-Formation" demonstrates in thirteen individual, empirically oriented case studies how the methods gleaned from newer theoretical models (optimality theory, construction grammar, cognitive grammar, distributive morphology, parallel architecture) as well as from the linguistic sub-disciplines of psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, corpus linguistics and computational linguistics can be applied lucratively to the field of word-formation. The individual contributions are from a team of international linguists and deal with a broad spectrum of interests divided almost equally between the two major areas of word-formation, derivation and composition.

Word-Formation

Word-Formation
Title Word-Formation PDF eBook
Author Peter O. Müller
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 824
Release 2015-03-30
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 3110246252

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This handbook comprises an in-depth presentation of the state of the art in word-formation. The five volumes contain 207 articles written by leading international scholars. The XVI chapters of the handbook provide the reader, in both general articles and individual studies, with a wide variety of perspectives: word-formation as a linguistic discipline (history of science, theoretical concepts), units and processes in word-formation, rules and restrictions, semantics and pragmatics, foreign word-formation, language planning and purism, historical word-formation, word-formation in language acquisition and aphasia, word-formation and language use, tools in word-formation research. The final chapter comprises 74 portraits of word-formation in the individual languages of Europe and offers an innovative perspective. These portraits afford the first overview of this kind and will prove useful for future typological research. This handbook will provide an essential reference for both advanced students and researchers in word-formation and related fields within linguistics.

Semantics of Complex Words

Semantics of Complex Words
Title Semantics of Complex Words PDF eBook
Author Laurie Bauer
Publisher Springer
Pages 324
Release 2015-03-03
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 3319141023

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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.

Semantics - Interfaces

Semantics - Interfaces
Title Semantics - Interfaces PDF eBook
Author Claudia Maienborn
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 706
Release 2019-02-19
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 3110587297

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Explore the exciting research where semantics meets morphology, syntax and pragmatics. In this book, leading researchers use in-depth articles to explain a wide range of topics at these interfaces, including the semantics of intonation, inflection, compounding, argument structure, type shifting, compositionality, implicature, context dependence, deixis and presupposition. Now in paperback for the first time since its original publication, the highly cited material in this book is an ideal starting point for anyone interested in semantics where it crosses over with other dimensions of grammar.

The Semantics of Compounding

The Semantics of Compounding
Title The Semantics of Compounding PDF eBook
Author Pius ten Hacken
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 265
Release 2016-04-21
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1316453677

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The question of how to determine the meaning of compounds was prominent in early generative morphology, but lost importance after the late 1970s. In the past decade, it has been revived by the emergence of a number of frameworks that are better suited to studying this question than earlier ones. In this book, three frameworks for studying the semantics of compounding are presented by their initiators: Jackendoff's Parallel Architecture, Lieber's theory of lexical semantics, and Štekauer's onomasiological theory. Common to these presentations is a focus on English noun-noun compounds. In the following chapters, these theories are then applied to different types of compounding (phrasal, A+N, neoclassical) and other languages (French, German, Swedish, Greek). Finally, a comparison highlights how each framework offers particular insight into the meaning of compounds. An exciting new contribution to the field, this book will be of interest to morphologists, semanticists and cognitive linguists.

Constructional and Cognitive Explorations of Contrastive Linguistics

Constructional and Cognitive Explorations of Contrastive Linguistics
Title Constructional and Cognitive Explorations of Contrastive Linguistics PDF eBook
Author Annalisa Baicchi
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 263
Release
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ISBN 3031466020

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Memorization and the Compound-Phrase Distinction

Memorization and the Compound-Phrase Distinction
Title Memorization and the Compound-Phrase Distinction PDF eBook
Author Marcel Schlechtweg
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 282
Release 2018-01-09
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 3110568675

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Over the last decades, it has been hotly debated whether and how compounds, i.e. word-formations, and phrases differ from each other. The book discusses this issue by investigating compounds and phrases from a structural, semantic-functional and, crucially, cognitive perspective. The analysis focuses on compounds and phrases that are composed of either an adjective and a noun or two nouns in German, French and English. Having distinguished compounds from phrases on structural and semantic-functional grounds, the author claims that compounds are by their nature more appropriate to be stored in the mental lexicon than phrases and supports his argument with empirical evidence from new psycholinguistic studies. In sum, the book maintains the separation between compounds and phrases and reflects upon its cognitive consequences.