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.

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 pe...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (758 p.)
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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