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UNINA9910784318403321 |
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Autore |
Lieber Rochelle <1954-> |
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Titolo |
Morphology and lexical semantics / / Rochelle Lieber [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004 |
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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 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 196 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Cambridge studies in linguistics ; ; 104 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Grammar, Comparative and general - Word formation |
Semantics |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-190) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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