Homonymy, Polysemy and Zero Derivation in the English-Macedonian Context

Vaneva, Marjana

doi:10.5901/mjss.2013.v4n3p77

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“…It is an integral feature of natural languages, their constituent. Words of any language form a universal base for developing polysemy, with almost any language unit having sufficient potential to develop new meanings as demonstrated by research results (Tuggy, 1993;Golubcova, 2002;Gyori, 2002;Kubrjakova, 2003;Vaneva, 2003;Vassiljev, 2009;Popova, 2011;Glebkin, 2014;Olchovskaja, 2015). Traditionally, polysemy is referred to as presence of several meanings, lexico-semantic variants in one word (Novikov, 2005).…”

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Typological Analysis of the Yakut and German Polysemantic Verbs KEL and KOMMEN

Prokopieva

Monastyrev

2016

IJALEL

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The analysis of language semantics of the polysemantic verbs kel and kommen of the modern Yakut and German languages brings us to the domain of concepts. Interest in typological studies of languages, in particular, in comparative studies of concept structure of polysemantic verbs has increased thanks to cognitive linguistics which is currently the most intensively developing field of linguistics. The direct nominative meaning of the Yakut verb kel and the German kommen reflects the main components of the concept structure that can be assigned to the concept core: object, operation, result. The purpose of this paper is the typological analysis of lexicographic codification of the phenomenon of polysemy in various languages of the Turkic and German language families. The study is of complex character; to reveal universal and specific ethnic-cultural features of compared Yakut and German linguistic units we used the inductive-deductive method, i.e. theoretical conclusions result from the analysis of practical material. Using the component analysis, lexical units were separated into smallest meaningful parts. Distributive method was used to analyze actualization of meanings of the Yakut and German polysemantic verbs 'kel' and 'kommen' in context. The typological analysis was invoked to reveal ethnic specifics of compared Yakut and German polysemantic verbs. The polysemantic verbs kel and kommen share the following concepts through subject: 'man', 'animal', 'time', 'artifact', 'emotional-physical state', and 'abstract notion'. All concepts given above, 15 lexico-semantic variants, 2 grammatical meanings of the polysemantic word kel and 18 meanings of the verb kommen are represented and codified according to all lexicographic rules and requirements in the Great Academic Dictionary of the Yakut Language and the Great German-Russian Dictionary that are an inexhaustible source for further research into comparative and typological linguistics. Illustration material was taken from the 5 th volume of the bilingual (Yakut-Russian) Great Academic Dictionary of the Yakut Language (2008) and the Great German-Russian Dictionary (2000). The present paper is devoted to typological research of the Yakut and German polysemantic verbs 'kel' and 'kommen' as the analysis of not only related but non-related languages as well reveals both ethnic specific and universal features. The problem of interaction between language and culture is of particular interest at a period of extending international contacts, intense interchange between different ethnic groups, combining focus on ethno-cultural values, tolerance, and capacity for inter-cultural communication.

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Typological Analysis of the Yakut and German Polysemantic Verbs KEL and KOMMEN

Prokopieva

Monastyrev

2016

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“…A. Paslavska, outlining the general features of affixal negation in Germanic, Romance and Slavic languages, notes that the prefix de-is negative in these languages [2]. According to Marjana Vaneva, «negative prefixes show privative meaning when by adding the negative element to the base we deprive the base of the thing expressed with the basic element» [3]. Bruno Cartoni, Marie-Aude Lefer note, that «de-attaches to verbs and nouns to form reversal and removal verbs, which are frequently nominalised or adjectivalised» in different languages [4].…”

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Words with the Prefix De- in the Ukrainian Online Media: Structure, Semantics, Tonality

Lebedenko,

Datsyshyn,

Haladzhun

et al. 2024

CLS

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The article is devoted to the analysis of the words with the prefix de- used in the language of mass media before the war (basing on the materials of Den newspaper published in September 2021) and during the war (on the example of Den newspaper materials published in October-November 2022 and some other online media). The research provides structural and semantic, etymological, statistical analysis and studies the tone expressed by the examined lexemes found in the texts. The prefix de- originates from Latin and means negation in the new-formed words. In the 51 materials of Den newspaper devoted to the economic and political events of the pre-war period (September 2021), 6 words with prefix de- were found. During the war, 19 units, including 4 units which were often repeated at the beginning of the persiod, were found in the analyzed resources. These lexemes are divided into three semantic groups, namely 1) downward movement, decline; 2) reduction, cancellation; 3) elimination, liquidation. It is marked that since the Russian invasion to Ukrainian, journalists have started to actively use the words directly related with the war: demilitarization, demobilization, demoralization, denazification, denationalization, deoccupation, desatanization, destabilization. The lexemes demilitarization, denazification, denationalization, desatanization express irony in the materials of Ukrainian journalists because these words are used by the aggressor to justify goals of the military invasion to Ukraine. In the majority of words, the prefix de- is used to make a word negative, but if a word is initially of negative meaning, the new-formed word with the prefix de- gets positive semantics. Most lexemes with the prefix de- attribute the text with a positive tone. Nevertheless, there are sentences with a negative, a neutral and an ironic tone. According to the etymology, almost all words with prefix de- are of foreign origin. According to the way of formation, the words with the prefix de- are divided into 1) those formed from nouns by adding the prefix; 2) those formed from verbs by adding the suffix. It is confirmed that lexemes like detoxification, de-shadowing, decommunization, destabilization, deregulation, demonopolization are not found in the Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language in eleven volumes, but are recorded in the Dictionary in twenty volumes. It means that these words have been first used in the 21st century. The lexemes de-Stalinization, desatanization, de-russification, depigmentation, deoccupation, debureaucratization are not found among the words registered in these explanatory dictionaries.

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“…Various meanings concerning homonymy are not correlated with each other or derived from those others, so they are regarded as different lexical units and the identical form is deemed inadvertent, which means there is lack of morphological connection (Matthews, 2014). That is to say, homonymy pertains to existence of more than one morphological specification sharing the same phonological and graphic form (Carstairs-McCarthy, 2010: 210-213;Vaneva, 2013).…”

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Internet Memes In China: Cultural Image Macros of Code-Switching and Homonymy

Wang

2023

LENSA

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Since China joined the Internet in the late 1980s, production and consumption of online cultural merchandise has been proliferating and permeating every section of society, exemplified by Internet literature, animation, comic and game. Meanwhile, there has emerged a veritable kaleidoscope of memes in China’s cyberspace, which are deployed on social media platforms to convey stances, emotions, humorousness, etc. Nonetheless, as a multi-faceted phenomenon, Internet memes fail to attain deserved academic scrutiny, so in this paper, I investigate one subcategory of memes in China’s cyberspace, viz. cultural memes, focusing on image macros that dynamically integrate visual effects and textual information. The text of cultural image macros can be generated via Chinese-English code-switching in the form of alphabetic words that are either idiomatic or related to Internet buzzwords. Alternatively, cultural image macros in China can be generated via homonymy: the vast majority of homonyms are homophones, while a small proportion of them are homographs. The corresponding images in the memes pertain to the inserted English words or constituents that are substituted, thereby complementing the text and strengthening humorous effects.

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Homonymy, Polysemy and Zero Derivation in the English-Macedonian Context

Abstract: Since the notions of homonymy, polysemy and zero derivation share some characteristics that make them similar, while they are independent language phenomena that linguistically distinguish from one another; this

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Typological Analysis of the Yakut and German Polysemantic Verbs KEL and KOMMEN

Typological Analysis of the Yakut and German Polysemantic Verbs KEL and KOMMEN

Words with the Prefix De- in the Ukrainian Online Media: Structure, Semantics, Tonality

Internet Memes In China: Cultural Image Macros of Code-Switching and Homonymy

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