Title English Lexicogenesis / D. Gary Miller

Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014

Click on the following:
EBSCO eBooks
Oxford Scholarship Online

Copies

Description 1 online resource Series [Oxford linguistics] Oxford linguistics. Contents Cover -- English Lexicogenesis -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Conception and scope -- Brief plan of the current work -- Acknowledgments -- Dating and other conventions -- Bibliographical abbreviations -- General abbreviations -- 1: Theoretical assumptions -- 1.1 Basic phrase structure -- 1.2 Word structure -- 1.3 Inflection -- 1.4 Deradical, denominal, and deverbal derivation -- 1.5 Overt formatives -- 1.5.1 Affixation -- 1.5.2 Stem change -- 1.5.3 Apophony/Ablaut -- 1.5.4 Accent -- 1.6 Conversion 1.6.1 Conversion in (poly)synthetic languages1.7 Backformation -- 1.8 Productivity -- 1.9 Features and feature change -- 1.10 Lexicalization -- 1.11 Summary -- 2: Productivity and constraints -- 2.1 Blocking -- 2.2 Phonological constraints -- 2.2.1 The haplological constraint -- 2.2.2 Stress clash -- 2.2.3 The homophony constraint -- 2.2.4 Dissimilatory constraint -- 2.2.5 Arbitrary constraints -- 2.3 Affixal restrictions -- 2.4 Syntactic constraints -- 2.5 Semantic constraints -- 2.5.1 Thematic roles 2.5.2 Manner/instrument verbs and dis- prefixation2.5.3 Stage- and individual-level predicates -- 2.5.4 Avoid Synonymy -- 2.6 Processing constraints -- 2.7 Processing and recursion: What do speakers count? -- 2.8 Turkish causatives -- 2.9 Summary -- 3: Compounding -- 3.1 Core properties of compounds -- 3.2 Synthetic compounds -- 3.3 Endocentric compounds -- 3.4 Exocentric compounds -- 3.5 Dvandva (or copulative) compounds -- 3.5.1 The order of dvandva constituents -- 3.5.2 Summary of dvandva properties -- 3.6 Appositional or identificational compounds 3.7 Retronym formation3.8 Summary -- 4: New patterns of derivation -- 4.1 Particles -- 4.2 Syntactic morphology -- 4.2.1 Basic clausal architecture -- 4.2.2 Preposition incorporation and left-adjunction -- 4.2.3 Semantic representations and syntactic derivations -- 4.3 Scalar/evaluative particles and P-V verbs -- 4.4 V-P nouns -- 4.4.1 V-P nouns with full argument structure -- 4.4.2 V-P nouns with simpler argument structure -- 4.5 The suffix -ee -- 4.6 Double -er -- 4.7 Deverbal -able and the laugh-at-able type -- 4.8 Summary -- 5: Novel word crafting 5.1 Lexicogenesis5.2 Need is the mother of all invention-or is it? -- 5.3 Analogical creations -- 5.4 Puns -- 5.5 Language play -- 5.6 Figuresof speech and rhetorical devices -- 5.7 Verbal art -- 5.8 Art from the ordinary: P-stacking -- 5.9 Summary -- 6: Metaphor and metonymy -- 6.1 Metaphor -- 6.2 Metaphorical change -- 6.3 Concrete abstract -- 6.4 Metonymy -- 6.5 Transferred epithet -- 6.6 Pure metonymy -- 6.7 Part-whole transfer (synecdoche) -- 6.8 Transfer of characteristic (antonomasia, eponymy) -- 6.9 English-specific eponymy -- 6.10 Summary Summary English Lexicogenesis investigates the processes by which novel words are coined in English, and how they are variously discarded or adopted, and frequently then adapted. Gary Miller looks at the roles of affixation, compounding, clipping, and blending in the history of lexicogenesis, including processes taking place right now. The first four chapters consider English morphology and the recent types of word formation in English: the first introduces the morphologicalterminology used in the work and the book's theoretical perspectives; chapter 2 discusses productivity and constraints on derivations; chapter 3 describes the basic typology of English compounds; and chapter 4 considers the role of particles in word formation and recent construct types specific to English. Chapters5 and 6 focus respectively on analogical and imaginative aspects of neologistic creation and the roles of metaphor and metonymy. In chapters 7 and 8 the author considers the influence of folk etymology and tabu, and the cycle of loss of expressivity and its renewal. After outlining the phonological structure of words and its role in word abridgements, he examines the acoustic and perceptual motivation of word forms. He then devotes four chapters to aspects and functions of truncation and toreduplicative and conjunctive formations. In the final chapter he looks at the relationship between core and expressive morphology and the role of punning and other forms of language play, before summarizing his arguments and findings and setting out avenues for future research Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Notes Print version record Subject English language -- Etymology. English language -- History. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Etymology. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General. English language English language -- Etymology Genre/Form Electronic book History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191004209 0191004200 1306452309 9781306452304 9780191770371 019177037X

  Permalink