The Semantics of Word Formation and Lexicalization

Pius ten Hacken; Claire Thomas

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2013

The Semantics of Word Formation and Lexicalization

Pius ten Hacken and Claire Thomas

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748689613

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An innovative approach to word formation and lexicalization

In the study of word formation, the focus has often been on generating the form. In this book, the semantic aspect of the formation of new words is central. It is viewed from the perspectives of word formation rules and of lexicalization. An extensive introduction gives a historical overview of the study of the semantics of word formation and lexicalization, explaining how the different theoretical frameworks used in the contributions relate to each other. Each chapter then concentrates on a specific question about a theoretical concept or a word formation process in a particular language and adopts a theoretical framework that is appropriate to the study of this question. From general theoretical concepts of productivity and lexicalization, the focus moves to terminology, compounding, and derivation.

Jackendoff’s Conceptual Structure
Langacker’s Cognitive Grammar
Lieber’s lexical semantic approach to word formation
Pustejovsky’s Generative Lexicon
Beard’s Lexeme-Morpheme-Base Morphology
The onomasiological approach to terminology and word formation

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List of figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
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1 Word formation, meaning and lexicalization Pius ten Hacken and Claire Thomas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 Semiproductivity and the place of word formation in grammar Pius ten Hacken Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
3 Lexicalization in Generative Morphology and Conceptual Structure Claire Thomas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
4 Term formation in a special language: how do words specify scientific concepts? Kaarina Pitkänen-Heikkilä Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
5 Nominal compounds as naming devices: a comparison of English and Polish land surveying terminology Pius ten Hacken and Ewelina Kwiatek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
6 Semantic and formal structure: a corpus-based study of Swedish NN compounds and their French counterparts Maria Rosenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	102
7 The semantics of lexical modification: meaning and meaning relations in German A+N compounds Barbara Schlücker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
8 Semantic transparency and anaphoric islands Martin Schäfer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
9 Semantic coindexation: evidence from Portuguese derivation and compounding Alexandra Soares Rodrigues and Graça Rio-Torto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
10 Deverbal nominalizations in English: an LMBM approach Maria Bloch-Trojnar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
11 Degrees of lexicalization in Ancient Greek deverbal nouns Germana Olga Civilleri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
12 How many factors influence the meaning of denominal and deadjectival verbs? The case of Modern Greek verbs in -( ι)άζω Angeliki Efthymiou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
13 Analysing en- and its Romance equivalents in Jackendoff’s Conceptual Structure Jessica Forse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
14 Semantics of diminutivization: evidence from Russian Renáta Panocová Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	266
Notes on contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	286
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	290
Author index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
Subject index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 272
Keywords: Language & Linguistics

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Published: November 17, 2013
ISBN: 9780748689613