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.
Pavol Štekauer presents an original approach to the intricate problems of English word-formation. The emphasis new naming units (words). This is described by an onomasiological model, which takes as its point of departure th community, and proceeds through conceptual reflection of extra-linguistic reality and semantic analysis to the for a result, it is the form which implements options given by semantics by means of the so-called Form-to-Meaning Word-formation is conceived of as an independent component, interrelated with the lexical component by supply units, and by making use of the word-formation bases of naming units stored in the Lexicon. The relation to the S mediated through the Lexical component. In addition, the book presents a new approach to productivity. It is maintained that word-formation processes are processes. This radically new approach provides simple answers to a number of traditional problems of word-for
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