E-raamat: Directionality in English morphological conversion

Tables - Figures - Abbreviations - 1 Introduction - 1.1 Focus of study -
1.2 Justification and hypothesis - 1.3 Aims and methods - 2 Directionality in
conversion - 2.1 Conversion or zero-derivation - 2.2 Approaches to conversion
- 2.3 The approach in this study - 2.4 The issue of directionality - 2.5
Criteria to determine directionality - 3 Methodological approach - 3.1
Resources: Dictionary And Corpus - 3.2 Procedures For The Analysis Of
Directionality - 3.3 Distribution Of senses into orders of derivation - 3.4
Methodological remarks - 3.5 Implications of the sense organization - 4
Applicability of the criteria for directionality - 4.1 Individual
applicability of the criteria - 4.2 Cross-criteria consistency - 4.3 Overview
on the cross-criteria consistency - 5 On the issues and relevance of the
criteria - 5.1 Introduction - 5.2 Semantic Dependence (SD) - 5.3 Semantic
Pattern (SP) - 5.4 Semantic Range (SR) - 5.5 Restrictions of Usage (RU) - 5.6
Quantitative-distributional criteria: FO And RR - 6 Conclusions - 6.1
Introduction - 6.2 Findings - 6.3 Limitations and future research -
References - Appendix

Alba E. Ruz holds a PhD in English Linguistics from the University of Granada (Spain). Her research is on English morphology, with a special focus on word formation and lexical semantics.