Diachronic studies in lexicology, affixation, phonology / Yakov Malkiel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Malkiel, Yakov, 1914-1998.

Series:

Malkiel, Yakov, 1914-1998. Edita and inedita, 1979-1988 ; v. 2.

Edita and inedita, 1979-1988 ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historical lexicology.

Historical linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1992.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The ten articles collected in this volume are an impressive indication of the range and depth of Malkiel's knowledge of diachronic processes in the Romance languages. In the author's experience, etymological studies of lexis frequently lead one into the areas of phonology and morphology, and the title of the book reflects these interrelationships. The volume opens with a previously unpublished paper which centers around the history of English. The other papers deal with topics from the Romance languages in general, and from Old French and Spanish in particular. The author has added a "Retrospe

Contents:

DIACHRONIC STUDIES IN LEXICOLOGY, AFFIXATION, PHONOLOGY; Title page; Copyright page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Lexicology; From Intuitive Etymology Through Word-HistoryTo Microglottology; ENDNOTES; REFERENCES; Problems in the Diachronic Differentiation of Near-Homophones; REFERENCES; Toward Higher Formalization in Etymology: The Spanish Culinary Term ciliérveda and its Variants; Notes; Crumēna, a Latin Lexical Isolate, and its Survival in Hispano-Romance (Sp. colmena, dial. cormena 'Beehive'); Affixation

Infinitive Endings, Conjugation Classes, Nominal Derivational Suffixes, and Vocalic Gamuts in RomanceNOVEMBER 1981 POST-SCRIPT; The Old French Verbal Abstracts in -ëiz; Phonology; Apocope: Straight; Through Contact of Languages; via Suffixal Polarization. The Spanish Derivational Morphemes and Word-Final Segments -in and -ino; WORKS CITED; The Transmission into Romance of Latin NŌDUS, NUPTIAE, NURUS, and NUX: Diachronic Interplay of Phonetic and Semantic Analogies; END NOTES; REFERENCES; The Fluctuating Intensity of a 'Sound Law': Some Vicissitudes of Latin and in Spanish; REFERENCES

The Discovery in Old French Phonology of the Niece, Piece, Tierç, Cierge TypeRetrospect; ""From Intuitive Etymology Through Word-History to Microglottology""; Problems in the Diachronic Differentiation of Near-Homophones; The Spanish Culinary Term ciliérveda and its Variants; CRUMĒNA, a Latin Lexical Isolate, and its Survival into Hispano-Romance; Infinitive Endings, Conjugation Classes, Nominal Derivational Suffixes,and Vocalic Gamuts in Romance; The Old French Verbal Abstracts in -ëiz; Apocope: Straight, through Contact of Languages; via Suffixal Polarization...

The Transmission into Romance of Latin NŌDUS, NUPTIAE, NURUS, and NUX: Diachronic Interplay of Phonetic and Semantic AnalogiesThe Fluctuating Intensity of a 'Sound Law': Some Vicissitudes of Latin E and O in Spanish; The Discovery in Old French Phonology of the niece, piece, tierç, cierge Type; INDEX OF NAMES; INDEX OF CONCEPTS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-283-42396-0

9786613423962

90-272-7427-4

OCLC:

775992937