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| Author | : Ingo Plag |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2003-10-30 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780521525633 |
This textbook provides an accessible introduction to the study of word-formation, that is, the ways in which new words are built on the bases of other words (e.g. happy - happy-ness), focusing on English. The book's didactic aim is to enable students with little or no prior linguistic knowledge to do their own practical analyses of complex words. Readers are familiarized with the necessary methodological tools to obtain and analyze relevant data and are shown how to relate their findings to theoretical problems and debates. The book is not written in the perspective of a particular theoretical framework and draws on insights from various research traditions, reflecting important methodological and theoretical developments in the field. It is a textbook directed towards university students of English at all levels. It can also serve as a source book for teachers and advanced students, and as an up-to-date reference concerning many word-formation processes in English.
| Author | : Laurie Bauer |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 332 |
| Release | : 1983 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780521284929 |
Although the illustrative material is drawn principally from English, general points are illustrated with a variety of languages to provide a new perspective on a confused and often controversial field of study.
| Author | : Kate Woodford |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1550 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9780521824231 |
The Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary is the ideal dictionary for advanced EFL/ESL learners. Easy to use and with a great CD-ROM - the perfect learner's dictionary for exam success. First published as the Cambridge International Dictionary of English, this new edition has been completely updated and redesigned. - References to over 170,000 words, phrases and examples explained in clear and natural English - All the important new words that have come into the language (e.g. dirty bomb, lairy, 9/11, clickable) - Over 200 'Common Learner Error' notes, based on the Cambridge Learner Corpus from Cambridge ESOL exams Plus, on the CD-ROM: - SMART thesaurus - lets you find all the words with the same meaning - QUICKfind - automatically looks up words while you are working on-screen - SUPERwrite - tools for advanced writing, giving help with grammar and collocation - Hear and practise all the words.
| Author | : Valerie Adams |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2016-07-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1315504243 |
A series to meet the need for books on modern English that are both up-to-date and authoritative.For the scholar, the teacher, the student and the general reader, but especially for English-speaking students of language and linguistics in institutions where English is the language of instruction, or advanced specialist students of English in universities where English is taught as a foreign language
| Author | : Manoochehr Tavangar |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 509 |
| Release | : 2018-11-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1527521729 |
This fascinating book treats the use of words from a completely new perspective. Far from being purely abstract entities, words are believed to emerge from an interaction between morphological, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic components. For this reason, the book draws from a vast spectrum of naturally occurring texts representing almost every style, register, and genre. It uses an extremely wide variety of language, and provides a key to help readers check their answers to the questions it poses.
| Author | : Pavol Štekauer |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : English language |
| ISBN | : 9781556198977 |
Pavol Stekauer presents an original approach to the intricate problems of English word-formation. The emphasis is on the process of coining new naming units (words). This is described by an onomasiological model, which takes as its point of departure the naming needs of a speech community, and proceeds through conceptual reflection of extra-linguistic reality and semantic analysis to the form of a new naming unit. As a result, it is the form which implements options given by semantics by means of the so-called Form-to-Meaning Assignment Principle. Word-formation is conceived of as an independent component, interrelated with the lexical component by supplying it with new naming units, and by making use of the word-formation bases of naming units stored in the Lexicon. The relation to the Syntactic component is only mediated through the Lexical component. In addition, the book presents a new approach to productivity. It is maintained that word-formation processes are as productive as syntactic processes. This radically new approach provides simple answers to a number of traditional problems of word-formation.
| Author | : Pavol Štekauer |
| Publisher | : Gunter Narr Verlag |
| Total Pages | : 522 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9783823352105 |
| Author | : Elisa Mattiello |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2017-05-22 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110549735 |
This book fills a gap in lexical morphology, especially with reference to analogy in English word-formation. Many studies have focused their interest on the role played by analogy within English inflectional morphology. However, the analogical mechanism also deserves investigation on account of its relevance to neology in English. This volume provides in-depth qualitative analyses and stimulating quantitative findings in this realm.
| Author | : Zeki Hamawand |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2011-07-07 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1441178201 |
Morphology in English is a text which provides an in-depth analysis of the branch of linguistics which studies the formation of composite words and the form-meaning relationships between their subparts. It takes a cognitive viewpoint and provides full coverage of the essential topics of prefixation, suffixation and compounding. It covers categorization, configuration and conceptualization and enables readers to recognize the complexity of the English lexical system. It demonstrates the pivotal role which morphemes play in the expansion of a languages lexical store. The book combines two aspects of language: word formation and semantic distinctions regarding usage, enabling readers to understand the formation of composite words and their use in natural language. The book features: clear layout accessible style explicit definitions vivid illustrations actual data examples exercises further reading appendices companion website with full answer set
| Author | : Peter O. Müller |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 770 |
| Release | : 2015-07-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110246279 |
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.
