Word Formation Across Languages PDF Download

Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Word Formation Across Languages PDF full book. Access full book title Word Formation Across Languages.

Word-Formation across Languages

Word-Formation across Languages
Author: Pavol Štekauer
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2017-01-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1443869295

Download Word-Formation across Languages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

Research into cross-linguistic aspects and typology of word-formation has not been paid relevant and systematic attention by morphologists, and only a few articles dealing with various word-formation issues of this kind appear in journals. The chapters in this volume address this issue by discussing, on contrastive principles, important questions of word-formation in a sample of 26 languages. The focus of the book, as a whole, is on typological features of word-formation in the languages sampled. It is aimed at researchers that have an interest in word-formation in a variety of languages.


Word-Formation in the World's Languages

Word-Formation in the World's Languages
Author: Pavol Štekauer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2012-04-23
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 052176534X

Download Word-Formation in the World's Languages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

Fills a gap in cross-linguistic research by being the first systematic survey of the word-formation of the world's languages. Data from fifty-five world languages reveals associations between word-formation processes in genetically and geographically distinct languages.


Interaction of Borrowing and Word Formation

Interaction of Borrowing and Word Formation
Author: ten Hacken Pius ten Hacken
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2020-03-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1474448224

Download Interaction of Borrowing and Word Formation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

Drawing on detailed case studies across a range of languages, including English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Russian, Lithuanian and Greek, this book examines the different factors that determine the outcome of the interaction between borrowing and word formation. Historically, borrowing has largely been studied from etymological and lexicographical perspectives and word formation has been included in morphology. However, this book focuses on their mutual influence and interaction. Bringing together a range of contributors, each chapter illustrates how borrowing and word formation are in competition as alternative naming processes, while also showing how they can influence each other. The case studies are framed by an introduction that describes the general background and a conclusion that summarises the main findings.


Mainland Southeast Asian Languages

Mainland Southeast Asian Languages
Author: N. J. Enfield
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2019
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0521765447

Download Mainland Southeast Asian Languages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

A concise introduction to the languages of mainland Southeast Asia that provides a new look at this unique area.


Gender Across Languages

Gender Across Languages
Author: Marlis Hellinger
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2002-04-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027297665

Download Gender Across Languages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

This is the second of a three-volume comprehensive reference work on “Gender across Languages”, which provides systematic descriptions of various categories of gender (grammatical, lexical, referential, social) in 30 languages of diverse genetic, typological and socio-cultural backgrounds. Among the issues discussed for each language are the following: What are the structural properties of the language that have an impact on the relations between language and gender? What are the consequences for areas such as agreement, pronominalisation and word-formation? How is specification of and abstraction from (referential) gender achieved in a language? Is empirical evidence available for the assumption that masculine/male expressions are interpreted as generics? Can tendencies of variation and change be observed, and have alternatives been proposed for a more equal linguistic treatment of women and men? This volume (and the previous two volumes) will provide the much-needed basis for explicitly comparative analyses of gender across languages. All chapters are original contributions and follow a common general outline developed by the editors. The book contains rich bibliographical and indexical material.Languages of Volume 2: Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, Hindi, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Vietnamese, Welsh.


The Acquisition of Derivational Morphology

The Acquisition of Derivational Morphology
Author: Veronika Mattes
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2021-11-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027258880

Download The Acquisition of Derivational Morphology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

This book offers the first systematic study of the early phases in the acquisition of derivational morphology from a cross-linguistic and typological perspective. It presents ten empirical longitudinal studies in genealogically and typologically diverse languages (Indo-European, Finno-Ugric, Altaic) with different degrees of derivational complexity. Data collection, analysis and systematic comparison between child speech and parental child-directed speech are strictly parallel across the chapters. In order to identify the productivity of a derivational pattern, signalling the crucial developmental stage in its acquisition, the concept of the mini-paradigm criterion was applied. Similar developmental processes can be observed in all children, independent of the language they acquire, but the children’s courses of development also show obvious typological differences. This points towards an important impact of the structural properties of the specific language on emergence, use and the early course of development of derivational patterns.


Derivational Networks Across Languages

Derivational Networks Across Languages
Author: Lívia Körtvélyessy
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 609
Release: 2020-06-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110686805

Download Derivational Networks Across Languages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

This pioneering research brings a new insight into derivational processes in terms of theory, method and typology. Theoretically, it conceives of derivation as a three-dimensional system. Methodologically, it introduces a range of parameters for the evaluation of derivational networks, including the derivational role, combinability and blocking effects of semantic categories, the maximum derivational potential and its actualization in relation to simple underived words, and the maximum and average number of orders of derivation. Each language-specific chapter has a unified structure, which made it possible to identify – in the final, typologically oriented chapter – the systematicity and regularity in developing derivational networks in a sample of forty European languages and in a few language genera and families. This is supported by considerations about the role of word-classes, morphological types, and the differences and similarities between word-formation processes of the languages belonging to the same genus/family.


Word-Formation in the World's Languages

Word-Formation in the World's Languages
Author: Pavol Štekauer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
ISBN: 9781139379472

Download Word-Formation in the World's Languages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

A pioneering book establishing the foundations for research into word-formation typology and tendencies. It fills a gap in cross-linguistic research by being the first systematic survey of the word-formation of the world's languages. Drawing on over 1500 examples from fifty-five languages, it provides a wider global representation than any other volume. This data, from twenty-eight language families and forty-five language genera, reveals associations between word-formation processes in genetically and geographically distinct languages. Data presentation from two complementary perspectives, semasiological and onomasiological, shows both the basic functions of individual word-formation processes and the ways of expressing selected cognitive categories. Language data was gathered by way of detailed questionnaires completed by over eighty leading experts on the languages discussed. The book is aimed at academic researchers and graduate students in language typology, linguistic fieldwork and morphology.


Word-Formation in English

Word-Formation in English
Author: Ingo Plag
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2003-10-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521525633

Download Word-Formation in English Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

This textbook provides an accessible introduction to the study of word-formation, that is, the ways in which new words are built on the bases of other words (e.g. happy - happy-ness), focusing on English. The book's didactic aim is to enable students with little or no prior linguistic knowledge to do their own practical analyses of complex words. Readers are familiarized with the necessary methodological tools to obtain and analyze relevant data and are shown how to relate their findings to theoretical problems and debates. The book is not written in the perspective of a particular theoretical framework and draws on insights from various research traditions, reflecting important methodological and theoretical developments in the field. It is a textbook directed towards university students of English at all levels. It can also serve as a source book for teachers and advanced students, and as an up-to-date reference concerning many word-formation processes in English.


Semantics of Word Formation and Lexicalization

Semantics of Word Formation and Lexicalization
Author: Pius ten Hacken
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2013-11-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0748689613

Download Semantics of Word Formation and Lexicalization Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

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. Theoretical frameworks discussed include 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.