The Semantics of Derivational Morphology: Theory, Methods, Evidence

book: The Semantics of Derivational Morphology

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2023

The Semantics of Derivational Morphology

Theory, Methods, Evidence

Edited by: Sven Kotowski and Ingo Plag
Funded by: Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

Volume 586 in the series Linguistische Arbeiten

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111074917

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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.

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Sven Kotowski & Ingo Plag, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
The semantics of derivational morphology: Introduction Sven Kotowski and Ingo Plag Open Access Download PDF	1
Ghost aspect and double plurality: On the aspectual semantics of eventive conversion and -ing nominalizations in English Rochelle Lieber Open Access Download PDF	15
Eventualities in the semantics of denominal nominalizations Viktoria Schneider Open Access Download PDF	37
The meaning of zero nouns and zero verbs Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Gianina Iordăchioaia, Svetlozara Leseva and Ivelina Stoyanova Open Access Download PDF	63
Analogical modeling of derivational semantics: Two case studies Ingo Plag, Lea Kawaletz, Sabine Arndt-Lappe and Rochelle Lieber Open Access Download PDF	103
Semantic rivalry between French deverbal neologisms in -age, -ion and -ment Richard Huyghe, Alizée Lombard, Justine Salvadori and Sandra Schwab Open Access Download PDF	143
Quantifying semantic relatedness across base verbs and derivatives: English out-prefixation Sven Kotowski and Martin Schäfer Open Access Download PDF	177
Distributional evidence for derivational paradigms Olivier Bonami and Matías Guzmán Naranjo Open Access Download PDF	219
Splitting ‐ly’s: Using word embeddings to distinguish derivation and inflection Martin Schäfer Open Access Download PDF	259
Index Open Access Download PDF	301

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Linguists (Semantics, Morphology, Computer Linguistics)
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 303
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 42
- Coloured Illustrations: 24
- Tables: 69
Keywords: Semantics; Morphology; Computer Linguistics

eBook

Published: February 20, 2023
ISBN: 9783111074917

Hardcover

Published: February 20, 2023
ISBN: 9783111074139

Paperback

Published: November 4, 2024
ISBN: 9783111628523