Complex words : advances in morphology / edited by Lívia Körtvélyessy, Pavol Štekauer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Körtvélyessy, Lívia, editor.

Štekauer, Pavol, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Morphology.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Word formation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 387 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Summary:

A state-of-the-art survey of complex words, this volume brings together a team of leading international morphologists to demonstrate the wealth and breadth of the study of word-formation. Encompassing methodological, empirical and theoretical approaches, each chapter presents the results of cutting-edge research into linguistic complexity, including lexico-semantic aspects of complex words, the structure of complex words, and corpus-based case studies. Drawing on examples from a wide range of languages, it covers both general aspects of word-formation, and aspects specific to particular languages, such as English, French, Greek, Basque, Spanish, German and Slovak. Theoretical considerations are supported by a number of in-depth case studies focusing on the role of affixes, as well as word-formation processes such as compounding, affixation and conversion. Attention is also devoted to typological issues in word-formation. The book will be an invaluable resource for academic researchers and graduate students interested in morphology, linguistic typology and corpus linguistics.

Contents:

Introduction : advances in morphology / Jan Don, Martin Everaert

Section 1. Lexico-semantic aspects of complex words. Formal Semantics and the problem of nominalizations / Rochelle Lieber

Semantically subtractive morphology / Stephen Anderson

-less and -free / Mark Aronoff

Instrumental nouns in -one in Latin and Romance / Franz Rainer

Prominence in noun-to-verb conversion / Heike Baeskow

On Spanish dvandva and its restrictions / Antonio Fábregas

Section II. Structure of complex words. Estonian case inflection made simple : a case study in word and paradigm morphology with linear discriminative learning / Yu-Ying Chuang, Kaidi Lõo, James P. Blevins, R. Harald Baayen

Uninflectedness : uninflecting, uninflectable, and uninflected words, or, The complexity of the simplex / Andrew Spencer

Complex exponents / Gregory Stump

Derivational patterns in proto-Basque word structure / Juliette Blevins

The complexity of Greek verbal morphology : the case of prefixed verbs / Artemis Alexiadou

Affixoids, an intriguing intermediate category / Angela Ralli

Section III. Corpus-based case studies. Competition between synthetic nn comounds and nn.GEN phrasal nouns in Polish : semantic niches, hapax legomena and low-level construction schemas / Bozena Cetnarowska

An <s> is an <s'>, or is it? Plural and genitive-plural are not homophonous / Ingo Plag, Sonia Ben Hedia, Arne Lohmann, Julia Zimmerman

The role of word-formation families and subfamilies in the organisation of German diminutive compounds / Wolfgang U. Dressler, Sonja Schwaiger, Jutta Ransmayr

Semantic patterns in noun-to-verb conversion in English / Salvador Valera

Onomatopoeia : on the crossroads of sound symbolism and word-formation / Lívia Körtvélyessy, Pavol Štekauer

Dingsbums and thingy : placeholders for names in German and other languages / Petra M. Vogel.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 Sep 2020).

ISBN:

1-108-78845-9

1-108-80963-4

1-108-78064-4