The Emergence of Productive Non-Medical -itis:
      Corpus Evidence and Qualitative Analysis

Lüdeling, Anke; Evert, Stefan

doi:10.1515/9783110197549.351

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“…We have now obtained a small set of qualitative evidence that can be used to describe the properties of non-medical -itis, such as the fact that non-medical -itis combines with native stems or names (medical -itis only combines with neoclassical stems). Similar results can be found for German (Lüdeling and Evert 2005).…”

Section: Corpus Searchsupporting

confidence: 89%

“…Of the three alternatives considered here, only the DWDS-Corpus provides the necessary information to answer a diachronic research question. Using the DWDS-Corpus, Lüdeling and Evert (2005) show that the non-medical use of -itis (in German) is not new, the first occurrences in the corpus are from 1915 (Spionitis 'excessive fear of spies) but that it became much more productive and changed qualitatively in the 1990s. Neither the BNC nor the web could be used for such a diachronic study: Many traditional corpora, such as the BNC, are designed to be synchronic, so that diachronic analysis is only possible when a comparable corpus with material from a different time is available.…”

Section: Meta-datamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As an example, consider the development of (German and English) non-medical -itis. A detailed discussion of the structural and quantitative properties of this suffix is given by Lüdeling and Evert (2005). Here, we chose it as an example because it is quite infrequent and there is some evidence that it has only developed recently.…”

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Using web data for linguistic purposes

Lüdeling

Evert

Baroni

2007

Corpus Linguistics and the Web

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The world wide web is a mine of language data of unprecedented richness and ease of access (Kilgarriff and Grefenstette 2003). A growing body of studies has shown that simple algorithms using web-based evidence are successful at many linguistic tasks, often outperforming sophisticated methods based on smaller but more controlled data sources (cf. Turney 2001;Keller and Lapata 2003). Most current internet-based linguistic studies access the web through a commercial search engine. For example, some researchers rely on frequency estimates (number of hits) reported by engines (e.g. Turney 2001). Others use a search engine to find relevant pages, and then retrieve the pages to build a corpus (e.g. Ghani and Mladenic 2001; Baroni and Bernardini 2004).In

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Section: Corpus Searchsupporting

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Using web data for linguistic purposes

Lüdeling

Evert

Baroni

2007

Corpus Linguistics and the Web

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“…For a detailed analysis of transgression of the rule's literality, (in the sense of changes in subcategorisation) suffered by -itis in Catalan, see Cabré et al (2002): the stylistic load of new non-specialised formed words, frequently recreational or ironic, is clear. A conclusion reached by Lüdeling and Evert (2005) when analysing neologisms with -itis in German. 13.…”

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Catalan compounds

Bernal

2012

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In this paper, we will present an overview of compounding in Catalan, covering the founding theoretical-descriptive studies of the 20th century to the most recent scholarship. Specifically, it analyses the boundaries of compounding, considering the limits which make it possible to distinguish compounding from derivation and free syntagmas. We will also consider the various types of compounding documented in Catalan, as well as the syntactic and semantic relationships between the elements that make up a compound. Finally, we will analyse newly-created compounds that shed light on the productivity of this process of word formation.

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“…First results in this direction are available at least for Dutch (Baayen 1994;Baayen and Neijt 1997), German (Lüdeling and Evert 2005 (Gaeta and Ricca 2003;diachronically, see Štichauer 2009), and French (cf. First results in this direction are available at least for Dutch (Baayen 1994;Baayen and Neijt 1997), German (Lüdeling and Evert 2005 (Gaeta and Ricca 2003;diachronically, see Štichauer 2009), and French (cf.…”

Section: Quantitative Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%