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9780521765343

Word-Formation in the World's Languages: A Typological Survey

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521765343

  • ISBN10:

    052176534X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2012-04-23
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

A pioneering book establishing the foundations for research into word-formation typology and tendencies. It fills a gap in cross-linguistic research by being the first systematic survey of the word-formation of the world's languages. Drawing on over 1500 examples from fifty-five languages, it provides a wider global representation than any other volume. This data, from twenty-eight language families and forty-five language genera, reveals associations between word-formation processes in genetically and geographically distinct languages. Data presentation from two complementary perspectives, semasiological and onomasiological, shows both the basic functions of individual word-formation processes and the ways of expressing selected cognitive categories. Language data was gathered by way of detailed questionnaires completed by over eighty leading experts on the languages discussed. The book is aimed at academic researchers and graduate students in language typology, linguistic fieldwork and morphology.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Field of Word-Formation
The scope of word-formation
Word-formation vs syntax
Cross-Linguistic Analysis
Word-formation processes combining free morphemes
Word-formation processes with bound morphemes
Word-formation without addition of derivational material and subtractive word-formation
An onomasiological description
Results and discussion
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