Word-Formation : : An International Handbook of the Languages of Europe. / Volume 2, : Word-Formation ; An International Handbook of the Languages of Europe / / ed. by Peter O. Müller.

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• HerausgeberIn: Müller, Peter O.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science [HSK] , 40/2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (758 p.)

This handbook comprises an in-depth presentation of the state of the art in word-formation. The five volumes contain 207 articles written by leading international scholars. The XVI chapters of the handbook provide the reader, in both general articles and individual studies, with a wide variety of perspectives: word-formation as a linguistic discipline (history of science, theoretical concepts), units and processes in word-formation, rules and restrictions, semantics and pragmatics, foreign word-formation, language planning and purism, historical word-formation, word-formation in language acquisition and aphasia, word-formation and language use, tools in word-formation research. The final chapter comprises 74 portraits of word-formation in the individual languages of Europe and offers an innovative perspective. These portraits afford the first overview of this kind and will prove useful for future typological research. This handbook will provide an essential reference for both advanced students and researchers in word-formation and related fields within linguistics.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- IV. Rules and restrictions in word-formation I: General aspects -- 45. Rules, patterns and schemata in word-formation -- 46. Word-formation and analogy -- 47. Productivity -- 48. Restrictions in word-formation -- V. Rules and restrictions in word-formation II: Special cases -- 49. Argument-structural restrictions on word-formation patterns -- 50. Phonological restrictions on English word-formation -- 51. Morphological restrictions on English word-formation -- 52. Semantic restrictions on word-formation: the English suffix -ee -- 53. Dissimilatory phenomena in French word-formation -- 54. Closing suffixes -- 55. Closing suffix patterns in Russian -- VI. Semantics and pragmatics in word-formation I: General aspects -- 56. Motivation, compositionality, idiomatization -- 57. Word-formation and folk etymology -- 58. Categories of word-formation -- 59. Schemata and semantic roles in word-formation -- 60. Word-formation and argument structure -- 61. Word-formation and metonymy -- 62. The pragmatics of word-formation -- VII. Semantics and pragmatics in wordformation II: Special cases -- 63. Noun-noun compounds -- 64. Gender marking -- 65. Singulatives -- 66. Collectives -- 67. Action nouns -- 68. Action nouns in Romance -- 69. Verbal nouns in Celtic -- 70. Nominalization in Hungarian -- 71. Result nouns -- 72. Quality nouns -- 73. Status nouns -- 74. Agent and instrument nouns -- 75. Patient nouns -- 76. Place nouns -- 77. Intensification -- 78. Negation -- 79. Negation in the Slavic and Germanic languages -- 80. Spatial and temporal relations in German word-formation -- 81. Adverbial categories -- 82. Denominal verbs -- 83. Valency-changing word-formation -- 84. Word-formation and lexical aspect: deverbal verbs in Italian -- 85. Word-formation and aspect in Samoyedic -- 86. Verbal prefixation in Slavic: a minimalist approach -- 87. Denumeral categories -- 88. The semantics and pragmatics of Romance evaluative suffixes -- 89. Morphopragmatics in Slavic