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Typological changes in the lexicon : analytic tendencies in English noun formation /
The book takes a new look at the typological change of English from a synthetic towards an analytic language, focusing on the lexical domain. It presents empirical data that document a considerable decline in the use of synthetic structures in the history of English noun formation and relates them t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
De Gruyter Mouton,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Topics in English linguistics ;
72. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Syntheticity and analyticity in the lexicon; 3. The framework: Suffixation and conceptual categories; 4. The corpus & methodology; 5. Category 1: Person; 6. Category 2: Object; 7. Category 3: Location; 8. Category 4: Action; 9. Category 5: Abstract; 10. The development of Old English noun suffixes; 11. The typological change of English word-formation; 12. Derivation and inflection: A typological perspective; 13. Noun formation after the early ME period; 14. Conclusion; Notes; References; Subject index.