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Expanding the Lexicon : Linguistic Innovation, Morphological Productivity, and Ludicity.

The creation of new lexical units and patterns has been studied in different research frameworks, focusing on either system-internal or system-external aspects, from which no comprehensive view has emerged. The volume aims to fill this gap by studying dynamic processes in the lexicon - understood in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Arndt-Lappe, Sabine
Otros Autores: Braun, Angelika, Moulin, Claudine, Winter-Froemel, Esme
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, 2018.
Colección:Dynamics of wordplay.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; Contents; Expanding the Lexicon: At the crossroads of innovation, productivity, and ludicity; I. Linguistic Innovation; Expanding the lexicon through formulaic patterns; Complex words in the early medieval Leges Barbarorum and their contribution to expanding the Old High German lexicon; Free usage of German unique components; II. Morphological Productivity; The phonetics of newly derived words: Testing the effect of morphological segmentability on affix duration; How stress reflects meaning; Expanding the lexicon by truncation: Variability, recoverability, and productivity.
  • III. Ludicity; Approaching wordplay from the angle of phonology and phonetics
  • examples from German; Playful nonce-formations in French: Creativity and productivity; Ludicity in lexical innovation (I)
  • French; Ludicity in lexical innovation (II)
  • German; Appendix; List of Abstracts / Liste des résumés; List of Contributors and Editors; Index.