Expanding the Lexicon

Linguistic Innovation, Morphological Productivity, and Ludicity

Sabine Arndt-Lappe, Angelika Braun, Claudine Moulin, Esme Winter-Froemel, Sabine Arndt-Lappe, Angelika Braun, Claudine Moulin, Esme Winter-Froemel

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9783110684940
• eBook ISBN: 9783110498165
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Persönliche Entwicklung
• Subtopic: Sprachen

The creation of new lexical units and patterns has been studied in different research frameworks, focusing on either system-internal or system-external aspects, from which no comprehensive view has emerged. The volume aims to fill this gap by studying dynamic processes in the lexicon – understood in a wide sense as not being necessarily limited to the word level – by bringing together approaches directed to morphological productivity as well as approaches analyzing general types of lexical innovation and the role of discourse-related factors. The papers deal with ongoing changes as well as with historical processes of change in different languages and reflect on patterns and specific subtypes of lexical innovation as well as on their external conditions and the speakers' motivations for innovating. Moreover, the diffusion and conventionalization of innovations will be addressed. In this way, the volume contributes to understanding the complex interplay of structural, cognitive and functional factors in the lexicon as a highly dynamic domain.

Index

• Adelung, Johann Christoph 1, 2, 3, 4ff.
• adjective-noun combinations 1, 2
• affixal swap See affixation: affix swapping
• affixation
• – affix 1, 2ff., 3ff., 4f.
• – affix duration 1, 2, 3
• – affix swapping 1, 2, 3
• – prefix 1, 2, 3f., 4ff., 5ff., 6, 7
• – prefixation 1
• – suffix 1, 2, 3, 4, 5f., 6f., 7ff., 8f., 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15f., 16, 17, 18, 19
• – suffix derivative 1
• – suffixation 1, 2, 3, 4f., 5, 6, 7ff.
• ambiguity 1, 2, 3
• analogy 1, 2f., 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
• anchoring 1ff., 2ff., 3f., 4, 5ff.
• Baroque 1, 2, 3ff., 4, 5
• blend 1, 2ff., 3f., 4f., 5ff., 6
• borrowing 1, 2f., 3, 4, 5f., 6, 7
• boundary strength 1f.
• clipping 1f., 2, 3ff., 4f., 5ff.
• coda 1, 2f., 3, 4, 5f., 6f.
• codification 1, 2, 3, 4
• complex word 1ff., 2f., 3ff., 4, 5f., 6f., 7, 8, 9, 10ff.
• complicity 1, 2, 3, 4, 5f., 6
• compositionality 1, 2, 3ff., 4, 5f., 6f., 7, 8ff., 9
• compound, compounding 1, 2, 3, 4f., 5, 6f., 7, 8ff., 9ff., 10, 11, 12ff., 13, 14f., 15, 16f., 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22ff., 23ff., 24f.
• constraint 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
• constructional morphology See morphology
• context 1f., 2, 3ff., 4, 5, 6, 7f., 8f., 9, 10ff., 11, 12, 13, 14ff., 15ff., 16f., 17, 18f., 19ff., 20f., 21, 22f., 23, 24, 25f., 26ff., 27f., 28ff., 29f., 30, 31f., 32ff., 33, 34, 35, 36ff., 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43ff., 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49f.
• conventional wordplay See wordplay
• conventionalisation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• corpus linguistics / analysis 1, 2, 3, 4f., 5ff., 6, 7, 8
• creativity 1, 2, 3f., 4f., 5f., 6, 7, 8
• culture 1, 2f., 3, 4, 5
• debonding 1, 2, 3, 4
• decomposability 1f., 2, 3
• denigration 1, 2
• diachronic evolution 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• dialect, diatopic variation 1, 2, 3, 4
• Dictionnaire de l’Académie française / DAF 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• diminutive 1, 2, 3f.
• discursive pattern 1, 2
• duration 1, 2, 3ff., 4, 5ff., 6ff., 7, 8, 9f., 10, 11f., 12
• Early New High German See German
• English 1, 2ff., 3, 4ff., 5f., 6f., 7f., 8ff., 9, 10, 11, 12, 13f., 14f., 15ff., 16ff., 17ff., 18, 19ff., 20, 21ff., 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28
• formal transparency See transparency
• formulaic (ir)regularity 1
• formulaic pattern / expression / language 1f., 2, 3f., 4ff., 5ff., 6, 7f.
• French 1f., 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13f., 14, 15f., 16ff., 17ff., 18ff., 19, 20ff., 21, 22, 23f., 24ff., 25f., 26
• frequency 1, 2, 3f., 4, 5f., 6, 7, 8ff., 9, 10ff., 11f., 12ff., 13, 14, 15ff., 16, 17, 18
• – fundamental frequency 1, 2, 3f.
• Frisch, Johann Leonhard 1, 2
• Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft 1, 2f.
• fundamental frequency See frequency
• German 1ff...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Expanding the Lexicon: At the crossroads of innovation, productivity, and ludicity
• I Linguistic Innovation
• Expanding the lexicon through formulaic patterns
• Complex words in the early medieval Leges Barbarorum and their contribution to expanding the Old High German lexicon
• Free usage of German unique components
• II Morphological Productivity
• The phonetics of newly derived words: Testing the effect of morphological segmentability on affix duration
• How stress reflects meaning
• Expanding the lexicon by truncation: Variability, recoverability, and productivity
• III Ludicity
• Approaching wordplay from the angle of phonology and phonetics – examples from German
• Playful nonce-formations in French: Creativity and productivity
• Ludicity in lexical innovation (I) – French
• Ludicity in lexical innovation (II) – German
• Appendix
• List of Abstracts / Liste des résumés
• List of Contributors and Editors
• Index