The Semantics of Derivational Morphology
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The Semantics of Derivational Morphology

Theory, Methods, Evidence

  1. 309 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Semantics of Derivational Morphology

Theory, Methods, Evidence

About this book

This volume brings together cutting-edge research on the semantic properties of derived words and the processes by which these words are derived. To this day, many of these processes remain under-researched and the nature of meaning in derivational morphology remains ill-understood. All eight articles have an empirical focus and rely on carefully collected sets of data. At the same time, the contributions represent a broad variety of approaches. Several contributions deal with specific problems of the pairing of form and meaning, such as the rivalry between nominalizing suffixes or the semantic categories encoded by conversion pairs. Other articles tackle the more general question of how meaning is organized, e.g. whether there is evidence for the paradigmatic organization of derived words or the reality of the inflection-derivation dichotomy. The contributions feature innovative methodologies, such as representing lexical meaning as word distribution or predicting semantic properties by means of analogical algorithms. This volume offers new and highly interesting insights into how complex words mean, and offers directions for future research in an oft-neglected field.

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Yes, you can access The Semantics of Derivational Morphology by Sven Kotowski, Ingo Plag, Sven Kotowski,Ingo Plag in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & German Language. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. The semantics of derivational morphology: Introduction
  5. Ghost aspect and double plurality: On the aspectual semantics of eventive conversion and -ing nominalizations in English
  6. Eventualities in the semantics of denominal nominalizations
  7. The meaning of zero nouns and zero verbs
  8. Analogical modeling of derivational semantics: Two case studies
  9. Semantic rivalry between French deverbal neologisms in -age, -ion and -ment
  10. Quantifying semantic relatedness across base verbs and derivatives: English out-prefixation
  11. Distributional evidence for derivational paradigms
  12. Splitting -ly’s: Using word embeddings to distinguish derivation and inflection
  13. Index