Morphology and meaning : selected papers from the 15th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, February 2012 / Franz Rainer [and three others], [editors].

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

International Morphology Meeting, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Rainer, Franz.

Conference Name:

International Morphology Meeting (15th : 2012 : Vienna, Austria)

International Morphology Meeting.

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, v. 327.

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; volume 327

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Morphology--Congresses.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (358 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : J. Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The problem of form and meaning in morphology has produced an impressive amount of scholarly work over the last hundred years. Nevertheless, many issues continue to be in need of clarification. The present volume assembles 18 selected papers from the 15th International Morphology Meeting (Vienna, 9–12 February 2012) relating to this vast field of research. The introduction provides a detailed overview of the state of the art in the field. It is followed by three articles derived from the plenaries that are dedicated to fundamental issues such as the relationship between morphological meaning and concepts, between word formation and meaning change, as well as indirect coding. The section papers tackle a wide array of issues, including affixal polysemy, pathways of grammaticalization, the processing of compounds, mismatches between form and meaning, synonymy avoidance, or the semantics of specific patterns of noun incorporation, compounding, reduplication and mimetic verbs.

Contents:

Morphology and meaning : an overview / Franz Rainer, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Francesco Gardani & Hans Christian Luschützky

Roots, concepts, and word structure : on the atoms of lexical semantics / Paolo Acquaviva

Between word-formation and meaning change / Peter Koch

Indirect coding / Christian Lehmann

Diachrony and the polysemy of derivational affixes / Giorgio Arcodia

Possessive compounds in Slavic and the principle of integrated meronymy / Iveta Chovanová & Pavel Štichauer

Relation diversity and ease of processing for opaque and transparent English compounds / Christina L. Gagné & Thomas L. Spalding

Inflection vs. derivation : the function and meaning of the Mordvin abessive / Arja Hamari

Discrepancy between form and meaning in word formation : the case of over- and under-marking in French / Nabil Hathout & Fiammetta Namer

Compounds vs. phrases : the cognitive status of morphological products / Sven Kotowski, Katja Böer & Holden Härtl

Semantic transparency, compounding, and the nature of independent variables / Gary Libben & Silke Weber

The layering of form and meaning in Creole word-formation : a view from construction morphology / Ana R. Luís

Semantic headedness and categorisation of -cum- compounds / Ramón Martí Solano

German plural doublets with and without meaning differentiation / Karlheinz Mörth & Wolfgang U. Dressler

On the form and meaning of double noun incorporation / Alessio Muro

Tuning morphosemantic transparency by shortening : a cross-linguistic perspective / Elke Ronneberger-Siebold

Root transparency and the morphology-meaning interface : data from Hebrew / Batia Seroussi

Mimetic verbs and meaning / Natsuko Tsujimura

Mismatch verbs : a unified account of unaccusatives and deponents / Philipp Weisser

The canonical function of the deponent verbs in Modern Greek / Katerina Zombolou & Artemis Alexiadou.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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ISBN:

9781461957744

1461957745

9789027270931

9027270937

OCLC:

870896931