Cognitive perspectives on word formation / edited by Alexander Onysko, Sascha Michel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Onysko, Alexander.

Michel, Sascha.

Series:

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 221.

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 221

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Word formation.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Morphology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (440 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While cognitive linguistics has become established as a comprehensive research paradigm over the last three decades, it has so far hardly contributed to investigations into processes of lexical creation as traditionally captured in research on word formation. In light of this, the volume at hand is the first one to take a step ahead towards illuminating diverse aspects of word formation from cognitive perspectives. The book combines contributions to the 2nd International Cognitive Linguistics Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association with a selection of invited papers by scholars working on issues of word formation and cognitive linguistics. This selection is guided by pluralism in both methodology and topics. Thus, some contributions are of a primarily theoretical nature discussing, for example, recombinance as a model of word formation and a taxonomy of word formation processes as construction types. Several articles address interface issues such as word formation and phrasal constructions, word formation and inflection, as well as phonology and word formational patterns. The majority of the studies focuses on individual types of word formation (compounding, affixation, and conversion), and they contribute to reframing our understanding of these processes. With a focus on mostly Germanic languages (Afrikaans, Dutch, English, German, Luxembourgish, and Norwegian), data-driven analyses include corpus linguistic investigations, elicited data, psycholinguistic experiments, and computational linguistic applications. A few contributions follow a mainly introspective path of reasoning based on the discussion of selected examples as in the analysis of creative compounds. Overall, the volume provides a rich array of topics emerging under the umbrella of cognitive linguistic thought and established patterns and processes of word formation. The various studies add to a yet marginal body of research in cognitive word formation and, thus, advance our awareness about the benefits of applying cognitive linguistic thoughts for investigating processes of lexical creation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of contents

Introduction: Unravelling the cognitive in word formation / Onysko, Alexander / Michel, Sascha

Part I Theory and interfaces in word formation

Word-formation or word formation? The formation of complex words in Cognitive Linguistics / Lampert, Martina / Lampert, Giinther

On the viability of cognitive morphology for explaining language change / Gaeta, Livio

(Re)defining component structures in morphological constructions: A Cognitive Grammar perspective / van Huyssteen, Gerhard B

Between phonology and morphology / Elsen, Hilke

The role of grammatical gender in noun-formation: A diachronic perspective from Norwegian / Conzett, Philipp

Adjective + Noun constructions between syntax and word formation in Dutch and German / Hüning, Matthias

Part II Theory and processes of word formation

Setting limits on creativity in the production and use of metaphorical and metonymical compounds / Benczes, Réka

Casting the conceptual spotlight: Hybrid compounding in German as an example of headframe internal specifier selection / Onysko, Alexander

Does love come from to love or to love from love? Why lexical motivation has to be regarded as bidirectional / Umbreit, Birgit

Doubler-upper nouns: A challenge for usage-based models of language? / Cappelle, Bert

The influence of morphological structure on the processing of German prefixed verbs / Heide, Judith / Lorenz, Antje / Meinunger, André / Burchert, Frank

Harvesting and understanding on-line neologisms / Veale, Tony / Butnariu, Cristina

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612716409

9781282716407

1282716409

9783110223606

3110223600

OCLC:

630538783