Cognitive Perspectives on Word Formation /

Cognitive Perspectives on Word Formation / / ed. by Sascha Michel, Alexander Onysko.

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While cognitive linguistics has become established as a comprehensive research paradigm over the last three decades, it has so far hardly contributed to investigations into processes of lexical creation as traditionally captured in research on word formation. In light of this, the volume at hand is...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Benczes, Réka,
Burchert, Frank,
Butnariu, Cristina,
Cappelle, Bert,
Conzett, Philipp,
Elsen, Hilke,
Gaeta, Livio,
Heide, Judith,
Hüning, Matthias,
Lampert, Giinther,
Lampert, Martina,
Lorenz, Antje,
Meinunger, André,
Michel, Sascha,
Onysko, Alexander,
Umbreit, Birgit,
Veale, Tony,
van Huyssteen, Gerhard B,
HerausgeberIn:
Michel, Sascha,
Onysko, Alexander,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 221
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Physical Description:1 online resource (431 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction: Unravelling the cognitive in word formation
  • Part I Theory and interfaces in word formation
  • Word-formation or word formation? The formation of complex words in Cognitive Linguistics
  • On the viability of cognitive morphology for explaining language change
  • (Re)defining component structures in morphological constructions: A Cognitive Grammar perspective
  • Between phonology and morphology
  • The role of grammatical gender in noun-formation: A diachronic perspective from Norwegian
  • Adjective + Noun constructions between syntax and word formation in Dutch and German
  • Part II Theory and processes of word formation
  • Setting limits on creativity in the production and use of metaphorical and metonymical compounds
  • Casting the conceptual spotlight: Hybrid compounding in German as an example of headframe internal specifier selection
  • Does love come from to love or to love from love? Why lexical motivation has to be regarded as bidirectional
  • Doubler-upper nouns: A challenge for usage-based models of language?
  • The influence of morphological structure on the processing of German prefixed verbs
  • Harvesting and understanding on-line neologisms
  • Backmatter

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