English lexicogenesis / D. Gary Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, D. Gary.

Series:

Oxford linguistics English lexicogenesis

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Etymology.

English language.

English language--Word formation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume investigates the processes by which novel words in English are coined, adopted, and adapted, such as affixation, compounding, and clipping. It looks at the interaction between word-forming operations, expressive morphology, and language play, and will appeal to all those interested in English etymology, lexicography, and morphology.

Contents:

Cover; English Lexicogenesis; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Conception and scope; Brief plan of the current work; Acknowledgments; Dating and other conventions; Bibliographical abbreviations; General abbreviations; 1: Theoretical assumptions; 1.1 Basic phrase structure; 1.2 Word structure; 1.3 Inflection; 1.4 Deradical, denominal, and deverbal derivation; 1.5 Overt formatives; 1.5.1 Affixation; 1.5.2 Stem change; 1.5.3 Apophony/Ablaut; 1.5.4 Accent; 1.6 Conversion; 1.6.1 Conversion in (poly)synthetic languages; 1.7 Backformation; 1.8 Productivity; 1.9 Features and feature change

1.10 Lexicalization1.11 Summary; 2: Productivity and constraints; 2.1 Blocking; 2.2 Phonological constraints; 2.2.1 The haplological constraint; 2.2.2 Stress clash; 2.2.3 The homophony constraint; 2.2.4 Dissimilatory constraint; 2.2.5 Arbitrary constraints; 2.3 Affixal restrictions; 2.4 Syntactic constraints; 2.5 Semantic constraints; 2.5.1 Thematic roles; 2.5.2 Manner/instrument verbs and dis- prefixation; 2.5.3 Stage- and individual-level predicates; 2.5.4 Avoid Synonymy; 2.6 Processing constraints; 2.7 Processing and recursion: What do speakers count?; 2.8 Turkish causatives; 2.9 Summary

3: Compounding3.1 Core properties of compounds; 3.2 Synthetic compounds; 3.3 Endocentric compounds; 3.4 Exocentric compounds; 3.5 Dvandva (or copulative) compounds; 3.5.1 The order of dvandva constituents; 3.5.2 Summary of dvandva properties; 3.6 Appositional or identificational compounds; 3.7 Retronym formation; 3.8 Summary; 4: New patterns of derivation; 4.1 Particles; 4.2 Syntactic morphology; 4.2.1 Basic clausal architecture; 4.2.2 Preposition incorporation and left-adjunction; 4.2.3 Semantic representations and syntactic derivations; 4.3 Scalar/evaluative particles and P-V verbs

4.4 V-P nouns4.4.1 V-P nouns with full argument structure; 4.4.2 V-P nouns with simpler argument structure; 4.5 The suffix -ee; 4.6 Double -er; 4.7 Deverbal -able and the laugh-at-able type; 4.8 Summary; 5: Novel word crafting; 5.1 Lexicogenesis; 5.2 Need is the mother of all invention-or is it?; 5.3 Analogical creations; 5.4 Puns; 5.5 Language play; 5.6 Figuresof speech and rhetorical devices; 5.7 Verbal art; 5.8 Art from the ordinary: P-stacking; 5.9 Summary; 6: Metaphor and metonymy; 6.1 Metaphor; 6.2 Metaphorical change; 6.3 Concrete abstract; 6.4 Metonymy; 6.5 Transferred epithet

6.6 Pure metonymy6.7 Part-whole transfer (synecdoche); 6.8 Transfer of characteristic (antonomasia, eponymy); 6.9 English-specific eponymy; 6.10 Summary; 7: Folk etymology and tabu; 7.1 Folk etymology; 7.2 Religious tabu; 7.3 Secular tabu; 7.4 Summary; 8: The cycle of expressivity; 8.1 Loss and renewal of expressivity; 8.2 Extralinguistic input; 8.3 The cognitive dimension; 8.4 Polysemic extension, limitation, and semantic features; 8.5 Semantic shifts; 8.6 Melioration and pejoration; 8.7 Borrowing and semantic transfer; 8.8 Calquing, or loan translation

8.9 On the phonological form of loanwords

Notes:

Includes indexes.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780191004209

0191004200

OCLC:

922972885