Historical Semantics - Historical Word-Formation / / ed. by Jacek Fisiak.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: AHLQVIST, ANDERS,; AIJMER, KARIN,; BAEK, EUNG-JIN,; BALDI, PHILIP,; BRODERICK, VICTOR,; BYBEE, JOAN L.,; COMRIE, BERNARD,; DRESSLER, WOLFGANG U.,; FRASER, THOMAS,; GEERAERTS, DIRK,; GUIMIER, CLAUDE,; HERBERT, ROBERT Κ.,; HICKEY, RAYMOND,; KASTOVSKY, DIETER,; KÖNIG, EKKEHARD,; LEHRER, ADRIENNE,; LEWANDOWSKA-TOMASZCZYK, BARBARA,; LI, CHARLES Ν.,; LIPKA, LEONHARD,; LÜDTKE, HELMUT,; MARCOS-MARIN, FRANCISCO,; MAŃCZAK, WITOLD,; MUKHIN, ANATOLIJ Μ.,; PAGLIUCA, WILLIAM,; PALERMO, DAVID S.,; PILCH, HERBERT,; RIDDLE, ELIZABETH Μ.,; RITCHIE, WILLIAM C.,; SAUER, HANS,; SHEPHERD, SUSAN,; SILVA-CORVALÁN, CARMEN,; STRAUSS, JÜRGEN,; WINTER, WERNER,
• HerausgeberIn: Fisiak, Jacek,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1985
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 29
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (607 p.) :; Num. figs. and tabs.

Table of Contents

I-IV -- Preface -- List of participants -- The ordering of nominal compounds in Irish -- The semantic development of will -- Semantic shifts in Korean honorification -- Prefixal negation of English adjectives: psycholinguistic dimensions of productivity -- Cross-linguistic comparison and the development of grammatical meaning Suppletion in word-formation -- Derivation, inflection, and semantic change in the development of the Chukchi verb paradigm -- Etymology and the lexical semantics of the Old English preverb be- -- Cognitive restrictions on the structure of semantic change -- On the origin of the suffix -ly -- Gender systems and semanticity: two case histories from Bantu -- Segmental phonology and word-formation: agency and abstraction in the history of Irish -- Deverbal nouns in Old and Modern English: from stem-formation to word-formation -- Where do concessives come from? On the development of concessive connectives -- The influence of semantic fields on semantic change -- On semantic change in a dynamic model of language -- Contact-induced semantic change and innovation -- Inferential features in historical semantics -- Diachronic irreversibility in word-formation and semantics -- Semantic development of borrowings -- Etymology and semantics. Theoretical considerations apropos of an analysis of the etymological problem of Spanish MAÑERO, MAÑERIA -- Lexical and syntactic semantics in historical aspect -- The synchrony-diachrony division in wordformation -- A historical perspective on the productivity of the suffixes -ness and -ity -- Word-formation, learnèd vocabulary and linguistic maturation -- Laʒamon's compound nouns and their morphology -- On the functional development of repetition in Antiguan Creole morphology, syntax, and discourse -- Modality and semantic change -- The lexicological analysis of older stages of languages -- 'Left' or 'right'? -- Index of authors -- Index of languages