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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784318403321

Autore

Lieber Rochelle <1954->

Titolo

Morphology and lexical semantics / / Rochelle Lieber [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004

ISBN

1-107-14858-8

1-280-51609-7

0-511-21474-X

0-511-21653-X

0-511-21116-3

0-511-31531-7

0-511-48629-4

0-511-21293-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 196 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge studies in linguistics ; ; 104

Disciplina

415/.92

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Word formation

Semantics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-190) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Features -- Co-indexation -- The semantics of verb formation -- Extending the system : location -- Extending the system : quantity -- Combinability and the correspondence between form and meaning -- Looking back, looking forward.

Sommario/riassunto

Morphology and Lexical Semantics explores the meanings of morphemes and how they combine to form the meanings of complex words, including derived words (writer, unionise), compounds (dog bed, truck driver) and words formed by conversion. Rochelle Lieber discusses the lexical semantics of word formation in a systematic way, allowing the reader to explore the nature of affixal polysemy, the reasons why there are multiple affixes with the same function and the issues of mismatch between form and meaning in word formation. Using a series of case studies from English, this book develops and justifies the theoretical apparatus necessary for raising and answering



many questions about the semantics of word formation. Distinguishing between a lexical semantic skeleton that is featural and hierarchically organised and a lexical semantic body that is holistic, it shows how the semantics of word formation has a paradigmatic character.