LEADER 04485nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910811971803321 005 20240516055126.0 010 $a1-283-16575-9 010 $a9786613165756 010 $a3-11-215884-9 010 $a3-11-023821-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110238211 035 $a(CKB)2670000000088766 035 $a(EBL)690641 035 $a(OCoLC)723945522 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000530355 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12165772 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000530355 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10561866 035 $a(PQKB)11188098 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC690641 035 $a(DE-B1597)114042 035 $a(OCoLC)753968361 035 $a(OCoLC)795353254 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110238211 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL690641 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10486439 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL316575 035 $a(PPN)159183510 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000088766 100 $a20100923d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTypological changes in the lexicon $eanalytic tendencies in English noun formation /$fby Alexander Haselow 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerlin ;$aNew York $cDe Gruyter Mouton$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (332 p.) 225 1 $aTopics in English linguistics,$x1434-3452 ;$v72 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a3-11-023820-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tAcknowledgements --$tContents --$tAbbreviations --$t1. Introduction --$t2. Syntheticity and analyticity in the lexicon --$t3. The framework: Suffixation and conceptual categories --$t4. The corpus & methodology --$t5. Category 1: Person --$t6. Category 2: Object --$t7. Category 3: Location --$t8. Category 4: Action --$t9. Category 5: Abstract --$t10. The development of Old English noun suffixes --$t11. The typological change of English word-formation --$t12. Derivation and inflection: A typological perspective --$t13. Noun formation after the early ME period --$t14. Conclusion --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tSubject index 330 $aThis is the first study of the typological change of English from a synthetic towards an analytic language that focuses exclusively on the lexical domain of the language. It presents an innovative approach to linguistic typology by focusing on the different encoding techniques used in the lexicon, providing a theoretical framework for the description of structural types (synthetic, analytic) and encoding techniques (fusional, isolating, agglutinative, incorporating) found in the lexicon of a language. It is argued that, in the case of English, the change from syntheticity to analyticity did not only affect its inflectional system and the encoding of grammatical information, but also the derivational component. Based on a cognitive approach to derivation, the book provides empirical evidence for a considerable decline in the use of synthetic structures and a trend towards higher degrees of analyticity in a specific lexical domain of English, the formation of nouns by means of derivation. The full extent of this change surfaced during the transition from Old English to early Middle English, but it was later partly reversed though influence from French. The typological shift was thus the result of a global structural reorganization of the language that resulted in a fundamental change of the structure of words. The book also presents a comprehensive account of the historical development of nominal derivation from the beginnings of Old English until the end of the early Middle English period. Based on empirical data from written sources the study documents the frequency of use of all Germanic-based derivational morphemes for nominalizations over different subperiods and discusses their origin as well as important changes of their semantic and morphological properties. 410 0$aTopics in English linguistics ;$v72. 606 $aEnglish language$xNoun 610 $aEnglish. 610 $aHistorical Linguistics. 610 $aMorphology. 615 0$aEnglish language$xNoun. 676 $a425/.54 700 $aHaselow$b Alexander$0772608 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811971803321 996 $aTypological changes in the lexicon$93924168 997 $aUNINA