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Record Nr.

UNISA996509962103316

Titolo

The Semantics of Derivational Morphology : Theory, Methods, Evidence / / ed. by Sven Kotowski, Ingo Plag

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2023]

©2023

ISBN

3-11-107491-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VI, 303 p.)

Collana

Linguistische Arbeiten , , 0344-6727 ; ; 586

Disciplina

415.92

Soggetti

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- The semantics of derivational morphology: Introduction -- Ghost aspect and double plurality: On the aspectual semantics of eventive conversion and -ing nominalizations in English -- Eventualities in the semantics of denominal nominalizations -- The meaning of zero nouns and zero verbs -- Analogical modeling of derivational semantics: Two case studies -- Semantic rivalry between French deverbal neologisms in -age, -ion and -ment -- Quantifying semantic relatedness across base verbs and derivatives: English out-prefixation -- Distributional evidence for derivational paradigms -- Splitting ‐ly's: Using word embeddings to distinguish derivation and inflection -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.