Presenting the latest ideas in the study of word-formation and linguistic typology, this volume represents the state-of-the-art in methodological and theoretical approaches to linguistic complexity. It brings together research by leading international morphologists to explore multiple aspects of complex words, across a wide range of languages.
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.
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'By uniting the world's top morphologists in a single volume, this book offers an exclusive insight into how current theories tackle some of the most challenging and exciting aspects of complex words. A comprehensive and accessible account of the latest advances in morphology that is set to become a modern classic.' Réka Benczes, Corvinus University of Budapest
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Drawing on innovative research, the book reveals the wealth and breadth of the study of word-formation, both theoretically and empirically.
Introduction: advances in morphology: a summary Jan Don and Martin
Everaert; Part I. Lexico-Semantic Aspects of Complex Words:
1. Formal
semantics and the problem of nominalizations Rochelle Lieber;
2. Semantically
subtractive morphology Stephen Anderson;
3. -less and free Mark Aronoff;
4.
Instrument Nouns in -one in Latin and Romance Franz Rainer;
5. Prominence in
noun-to-verb conversion Heike Baeskow;
6. On Spanish dvandva and its
restrictions Antonio Fábregas; Part II. Structure of Complex Words:
7.
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, and R. Harald Baayen;
8. Uninflectedness: uninflecting,
uninflectable, and uninflected words, or the complexity of the simplex Andrew
Spencer;
9. Complex exponents Gregory Stump;
10. Derivational patterns in
proto-basque word structure Juliette Blevins;
11. The complexity of greek
verbal morphology: the case of prefixed verbs Artemis Alexiadou;
12.
Affixoids, an intriguing intermediate category Angela Ralli; Part III.
Corpus-Based Case Studies:
13. Competition between synthetic nn compounds and
nn.GEN phrasal nouns in polish: semantic niches, hapax legomena and low-level
construction schemas Bozena Cetnarowska;
14. An s is an s', or is it? Plural
and genitive-plural are not homophonous Ingo Plag, Sonia Ben Hedia, Arne
Lohmann, and Julia Zimmermann;
15. The role of word-formation families and
subfamilies in the organisation of German diminutive compounds Wolfgang U.
Dressler, Sonja Schwaiger, and Jutta Ransmayr;
16. Semantic patterns in
noun-to-verb conversion in English Salvador Valera;
17. Onomatopoeia: on the
crossroads of sound symbolism and word-formation Lívia Körtvélyessy, and
Pavol tekauer;
18. Dingsbums and thingy: placeholders for names in German
and other languages Petra M. Vogel.
Lívia Körtvélyessy Professor in the Department of British and American Studies, P.J. afárik University, Koice, Slovakia. Her research has focused on typology of word-formation and evaluative morphology. She is author of Evaluative Morphology from a Cross-linguistic Perspective (2015), On the Influence of Sociolinguistic Factors on Productivity in Word-Formation (2010) and co-author of Word-Formation in the World's Languages: A Typological Survey (2012). Pavol tekauer is Professor in the Department of British and American Studies, P.J. afárik University, Koice, Slovakia. His research has focused on an onomasiological approach to complex-word-formation and interpretation. He is author of A Theory of Conversion in English (1996), An Onomasiological Theory of English Word-Formation (1998), Meaning Predictability in Word-Formation (2005) and co-author of Word-Formation in the World's Languages. A Typological Survey (2012).
