English Lexicogenesis /

English Lexicogenesis investigates the processes by which novel words are coined in English, and how they are variously discarded or adopted, and frequently then adapted. Gary Miller looks at the roles of affixation, compounding, clipping, and blending in the history of lexicogenesis, including proc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Miller, D. Gary
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Colección:Oxford linguistics.
Temas:
English language > Etymology.
English language > History.
Anglais (Langue) > Étymologie.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Etymology.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > General.
English language.
Electronic book.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • English Lexicogenesis
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Conception and scope
  • Brief plan of the current work
  • Acknowledgments
  • Dating and other conventions
  • Bibliographical abbreviations
  • General abbreviations
  • 1: Theoretical assumptions
  • 1.1 Basic phrase structure
  • 1.2 Word structure
  • 1.3 Inflection
  • 1.4 Deradical, denominal, and deverbal derivation
  • 1.5 Overt formatives
  • 1.5.1 Affixation
  • 1.5.2 Stem change
  • 1.5.3 Apophony/Ablaut
  • 1.5.4 Accent
  • 1.6 Conversion
  • 1.6.1 Conversion in (poly)synthetic languages1.7 Backformation
  • 1.8 Productivity
  • 1.9 Features and feature change
  • 1.10 Lexicalization
  • 1.11 Summary
  • 2: Productivity and constraints
  • 2.1 Blocking
  • 2.2 Phonological constraints
  • 2.2.1 The haplological constraint
  • 2.2.2 Stress clash
  • 2.2.3 The homophony constraint
  • 2.2.4 Dissimilatory constraint
  • 2.2.5 Arbitrary constraints
  • 2.3 Affixal restrictions
  • 2.4 Syntactic constraints
  • 2.5 Semantic constraints
  • 2.5.1 Thematic roles
  • 2.5.2 Manner/instrument verbs and dis- prefixation2.5.3 Stage- and individual-level predicates
  • 2.5.4 Avoid Synonymy
  • 2.6 Processing constraints
  • 2.7 Processing and recursion: What do speakers count?
  • 2.8 Turkish causatives
  • 2.9 Summary
  • 3: Compounding
  • 3.1 Core properties of compounds
  • 3.2 Synthetic compounds
  • 3.3 Endocentric compounds
  • 3.4 Exocentric compounds
  • 3.5 Dvandva (or copulative) compounds
  • 3.5.1 The order of dvandva constituents
  • 3.5.2 Summary of dvandva properties
  • 3.6 Appositional or identificational compounds
  • 3.7 Retronym formation3.8 Summary
  • 4: New patterns of derivation
  • 4.1 Particles
  • 4.2 Syntactic morphology
  • 4.2.1 Basic clausal architecture
  • 4.2.2 Preposition incorporation and left-adjunction
  • 4.2.3 Semantic representations and syntactic derivations
  • 4.3 Scalar/evaluative particles and P-V verbs
  • 4.4 V-P nouns
  • 4.4.1 V-P nouns with full argument structure
  • 4.4.2 V-P nouns with simpler argument structure
  • 4.5 The suffix -ee
  • 4.6 Double -er
  • 4.7 Deverbal -able and the laugh-at-able type
  • 4.8 Summary
  • 5: Novel word crafting
  • 5.1 Lexicogenesis5.2 Need is the mother of all invention-or is it?
  • 5.3 Analogical creations
  • 5.4 Puns
  • 5.5 Language play
  • 5.6 Figuresof speech and rhetorical devices
  • 5.7 Verbal art
  • 5.8 Art from the ordinary: P-stacking
  • 5.9 Summary
  • 6: Metaphor and metonymy
  • 6.1 Metaphor
  • 6.2 Metaphorical change
  • 6.3 Concrete abstract
  • 6.4 Metonymy
  • 6.5 Transferred epithet
  • 6.6 Pure metonymy
  • 6.7 Part-whole transfer (synecdoche)
  • 6.8 Transfer of characteristic (antonomasia, eponymy)
  • 6.9 English-specific eponymy
  • 6.10 Summary

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