Competition in Word-Formation

18 Jun

This volume focuses on a number of interrelated issues in the theorizing and interpretation of morphological rivalry, including the differences between a semasiological and an onomasiological approach to competition phenomena in word-formation, the scope of such phenomena (micro-level rivalry between individual affixes, as well as macro-level competition between different processes), the different sources of competition, and the possible resolutions of competitive situations. An overview of existing research in the field is provided, as well as new, cutting-edge findings and proposals for analytical innovation. Linguistic data are drawn from European and Asian languages, and morphologists, semanticists, and anyone interested in the dynamics of language will be stimulated by the analytical models and explanations offered in the 11 chapters.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1. Towards a competition-based word-formation theory: Core research questions and major hypotheses

Akiko Nagano, Alexandra Bagasheva and Vincent Renner | pp. 1–31

  • PART 1. COMPETITION IN AFFIXATION

Chapter 2. A lexicalist approach to affixal rivalry and its explanatory basis

Akiko Nagano | pp. 34–71

Chapter 3. Actional nominalization in Present-Day English in the light of the Referenced Index of Competition

Jesús Fernández-Domínguez | pp. 72–103

Chapter 4. Measuring affix rivalry as a gradient relationship

Justine Salvadori, Rossella Varvara and Richard Huyghe | pp. 104–138

Chapter 5. Exploring linguistic competition in English derivatives ending in ‑ie and ‑o through a cognitive-onomasiological approach

Elizaveta Tarasova and José A. Sánchez Fajardo | pp. 139–175

Chapter 6. Diminutive formation in Modern Greek: Variation and competition

Angeliki Efthymiou | pp. 176–205

  • PART 2. MACRO-LEVEL COMPETITION, THE LEXICON AND ITS INTERFACES

Chapter 7. Competition between affixation and conversion in Present-Day English denominal verbs

Chloé Debouzie | pp. 208–246

Chapter 8. A diachronic perspective on competition in denominal verb formation in Italian

Claudio Iacobini and Maria Pina De Rosa | pp. 247–274

Chapter 9. Competition of lexicon vs. pragmatics in word formation: Japanese lexical V-V compounds and argument synthesis

Kazuhiko Fukushima | pp. 275–296

Chapter 10. [N1 + N2], [N + A], and [N1 + de + N2]: Is there a tripartite competition in French endocentric naming constructions?

Kentaro Koga | pp. 297–325

Chapter 11. Revisiting Poser’s (1992) “Blocking of phrasal constructions by lexical items” from the perspective of the economy of language use principle

Ichiro Yuhara | pp. 326–349

Index | pp. 351–352

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