Process and Paradigms in Word-Formation Morphology

✍ Scribed by Amanda Pounder

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 760
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]; 131
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Psycholinguistic research in morphology
2.1. Introduction
2.2. The lexicon
2.3. Morphological processes
2.4. Conclusion
3. Formal concepts: model-building
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Elements of a model of the morphological component
3.3. Form and meaning relations in word-formation
3.4. Units of analysis in word-formation
3.5. The morphological operation
3.6. Summary
3.7. The word-formation paradigm
3.8. Conclusion
4. The semantics of word-formation
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Word-formation meaning vs. lexical meaning
4.3. Formal possibilities of representation for word-formation meanings
4.4. Design of a system of word-formation functions
4.5. Lexical relationships
4.6. Semantics in the lexical and word-formation paradigms
5. Productivity and norm
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Productivity
5.3. Norm
5.4. Conclusion
6. Historical investigation: sources and parameters
6.1. Introduction
6.2. Empirical investigation: goals and data sources
6.3. Lexicographical sources
6.4. Prose text sources
6.5. Presentation of results
6.6. Hypotheses
7. Systemic development of denominal adjective derivation in German: 16th – 19th centuries
7.1. Period I: 16th-century German
7.2. Period II: 17th- and 18th-century German
7.3. Period III: late 18th – early 19th century German
8. Discussion and conclusions: word-formation morphology and the nature of change
8.1. Paths of change: structural levels
8.2. Elaboration of formal concepts
8.3. Productivity
8.4. Standardization
8.5. Language change
8.6. Conclusion
Notes
References
Index