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Word-formation. Semantics and pragmatics / edited by Peter O. Müller, Susan Olsen and Franz Rainer.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Mouton reader
- Handbooks to word-formation ; 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Word formation.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Pragmatics.
- Semantics.
- pragmatics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Other Title:
- Semantics and pragmatics
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2025]
- Summary:
- "This reader is part of a five-volume-edition and comprises an in-depth presentation of the state of the art in word-formation. Volume 3 places its emphasis on the semantic models and pragmatic features of complex words"-- De Gruyter Brill
- Contents:
- Motivation, compositionality, idiomatization / Daniela Marzo
- Word-formation and folk etymology / Sascha Michel
- Categories of word-formation / Volkmar Lehmann
- The pragmatics of word-formation / Lavinia Merlini Barbaresi
- Noun-noun compounds / Christina L. Gagné and Thomas L. Spalding
- Gender marking / Ursula Doleschal
- Singulatives / Paolo Acquaviva
- Collectives / Wiltrud Mihatsch
- Action nouns / Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm
- Result nouns / Chiara Melloni
- Quality nouns / Franz Rainer
- Status nouns / Hans Christian Luschützky
- Agent and instrument nouns / Franz Rainer
- Patient nouns / Susanne Mühleisen
- Place nouns / Bogdan Szymanek
- Intensification / Franz Rainer
- Negation / Marisa Montero Curiel
- Adverbial categories / Davide Ricca
- Denominal verbs / Andrew McIntyre
- Denumeral categories / Bernard Fradin
- The semantics and pragmatics of Romance evaluative suffixes / Martin Hummel
- Morphopragmatics in Slavic / Alicja Nagórko
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed June 17, 2026)
- Other Format:
- Print version: Word-formation.
- ISBN:
- 9783111420813
- 3111420817
- 9783111420547
- 311142054X
- OCLC:
- 1529917484
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000256432
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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