Umfang:
1 online resource (332 pages)
ISBN:
9783110238211
Serie:
Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] Ser v.72
Inhalt:
The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.
Inhalt:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 1.Preliminaries -- 2.The goals of the present study -- 3.The structure of the present study -- 4.Studies on the development of English derivational morphology -- 4.1.General accounts -- 4.2.Studies on quantitative changes in the use of prefixes and suffixes -- 5.The typological change of English word-formation -- 6.Two scenarios -- 2.Syntheticity and analyticity in the lexicon -- 1.Introduction -- 2.Overview of past studies of morphological typology -- 2.1.Morphological typology and derivation -- 2.2.General remarks -- 3.Language change and morphological typology -- 3.1.Sapir's concept of 'drift' -- 3.2.Dixon's typological clock -- 3.3.Typological changes in IE languages -- 4.The structural types of encoding lexical information -- 4.1.Analytic encoding techniques -- 4.2.Synthetic encoding techniques: Agglutination and fusion -- 5.The status of zero-derivation: synthetic or analytic? -- 6.A typological profile of Old English -- 7.Conclusion -- 3.The framework: Suffixation and conceptual categories -- 1.Introduction -- 2.Grammatical vs. semantic analysis of derivatives -- 3.Semantic description of suffixes -- 4.The approach taken in the present study -- 4.1.Word-formation rules from a cognitive perspective -- 4.2.Schemas -- 4.3.Conceptual categories -- 4.4.The role of suffixes in a schema-based approach -- 4.5.Advantages of the schema-based approach -- 5.The five conceptual categories -- 5.1.Person -- 5.2.Object -- 5.3.Location -- 5.4.Action -- 5.5.Abstract -- 6.Major shortcomings of the schema-based approach -- 7.Summary -- 4.The corpus & methodology -- 1.Introduction -- 2.Linguistic variation -- 3.Selection of the texts -- 4.Methodology: Identifying nominal derivatives in the texts -- 5.Documentation of the results -- 6.Other criteria guiding the empirical analysis.
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ISBN 9783110238204
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Sprache:
Englisch
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