Inheritance and motivation in Construction Morphology

Author(s):  
Geert Booij

The basic question to be addressed in this chapter is: what is the status of the notions ‘inheritance’ and ‘default inheritance’ in the theoretical framework of Construction Morphology (CM)? This framework, developed in Booij (2010), assumes a hierarchical lexicon with both abstract morphological schemas and stored complex words that instantiate these schemas. The lexicon of a language can be modelled in such a way that the abstract word formation schemas dominate their individual instantiations. Thus, the lexicon is partially conceived of as a hierarchical network in which lower nodes, the existing complex words, can be assumed to inherit information from dominating higher nodes. Advantages of a full-entry theory over an impoverished entry theory are outlined, and the chapter includes discussion of polysemy, allomorphy, and the class of items that fall between derivatives and compounds using ‘affixoids’.

Kavkaz-forum ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Л.Б. МОРГОЕВА ◽  
И.Н. ЦАЛЛАГОВА

В работе рассматриваются препозиционные словообразовательные элементы, склонные к самостоятельному лексическому значению и обнаруживающие формально-грамматические пересечения с некоторыми морфологическими классами в осетинском языке. Тесная морфолого-синтаксическая связь слов становится мотивирующим признаком при образовании новых лексических образований, статус которых требует специальных исследований и определения их компонентного состава. Лексический состав современного осетинского языка в обеих его диалектных формах содержит изрядное количество сложных слов с одинаковыми начальными компонентами, обнаруживающих частичную утрату собственного лексического значения и потому не способных отвечать требованиям композитного образования. Анализ таких препозиционных элементов, не имеющих до сих пор однозначно определенного статуса, показал их способность к функционированию в составе слова в качестве полноценных префиксов, поскольку их семантическое значение сводится к указанию направления или местоположения объектов по отношению друг к другу. Их усеченная форма, стремительная утрата собственной семантики и словообразовательная активность способствуют укреплению их префиксального статуса. Прогнозируемая востребованность этих препозиционных единиц связана с развитием публицистического и официально-делового стилей осетинского языка. Препозиционные элементы, выступающие в качестве эмоционально-оценочных интенсификаторов мотивирующего компонента в составе лексического образования, нами классифицируются как префиксоиды. Сохраняя собственное лексическое значение при самостоятельном функционировании, такие элементы активизируют коннотативные смыслы того слова, с которым вступают в словообразовательные отношения. Семантические особенности, которыми способны наделять слово выявленные префиксоиды, ограничивают сферу употребления в рамках тех стилевых раз­новидностей, в которых предполагается образность и эмоциональная оценочность. The paper considers prepositional word-formation elements, prone to independent lexical meaning and revealing formal-grammatical intersections with some morphological classes in the Ossetian language. The close morphological and syntactic connection of words becomes a motivating sign in the formation of new lexical formations, the status of which requires special studies and determination of their component composition. The lexical composition of the modern Ossetian language in both its dialect forms contains a fair amount of complex words with the same initial components, revealing a partial loss of their own lexical meaning and therefore not able to meet the requirements of composite education. An analysis of such prepositional elements, which still do not have a uniquely defined status, showed their ability to function as part of a word as full-fledged prefixes, since their semantic meaning reduces to indicating the direction or location of objects with respect to each other. Their truncated form, the rapid loss of their own semantics and word-formation activity contribute to the strengthening of their prefix status. The predicted demand for these prepositional units is associated with the development of the journalistic and official business styles of the Ossetian language. Prepositional elements, acting as emotional-evaluative intensifiers of the motivating component in the lexical education, we classify as prefixoids. Preserving their own lexical meaning during independent functioning, such elements activate the connotative meanings of the word with which they enter into word-formation relations. The semantic features that the identified prefixoids are able to endow with the word limit the scope of use within the framework of those stylistic varieties in which imagery and emotional appraisal are assumed.


Author(s):  
И.Н. Цаллагова

В статье рассматриваются вопросы композитного словообразования в осетинском языке. Пристальный интерес специалистов к образованию сложных слов в языке, особенно в дигорском диалекте, автор объясняет его слабой изученностью в лингвистической науке. На сегодняшний день в осетинском языке обнаруживается значительное количество сложных образований, статус которых до сих пор не определен. Это приводит к некоторым сложностям при составлении учебных пособий и словарей осетинского языка. Дело в том, что семантическое слияние двух и более основ в одно целое не всегда сопровождается какими-либо изменениями грамматических форм слов, которые ранее были словосочетаниями. В связи с тем, что в осетинском языкознании недостаточно разработаны теоретические вопросы композитного словообразования, множество конструкций не поддается окончательному определению и сохраняет как бы промежуточное положение между сложными словами и словосочетаниями; одна и та же конструкция тяготеет одними признаками к сложному слову, другими – к словосочетанию. В представленном исследовании рассмотрена проблема идентификации композита, которая тесно связана с проблемами орфографирования и лексикографирования данных языковых образований: непоследовательностью в правописании разных типов сложных слов, отсутствием единых принципов отбора и подачи их в словарях. В статье рассмотрены вопросы типологии композитов в осетинском языке, которые отличаются разнообразием как по характеру семантических взаимоотношений между компонентами конструкции, так и по своим формально-структурным характеристикам. Composites have been and remain the object of close attention of linguists. Compounding in the Ossetian language, especially in the Digor dialect, is one of the least studied problems. Meanwhile, in the Ossetian language today there are a significant number of complex entities, the status of which has not yet been determined. This leads to certain difficulties in the compilation of textbooks and dictionaries of the Ossetian language. This is due to the fact that the semantic fusion of two or more bases into one whole is not always accompanied by any changes in the grammatical forms of the words that make up the phrase. Due to the fact that the theoretical issues of composite word-formation are not sufficiently developed in Ossetian linguistics, many constructions do not lend themselves to definitive definition and occupy an intermediate position between compound words and phrases, acquiring some characteristics of a word combination and retaining some features of a compound word. This study addresses the problem of identifying a composite, which is closely related to the problems of spelling and lexicography of these language formations - inconsistency in the spelling of various types of complex words, the lack of uniform selection principles and their presentation in dictionaries. The questions of the typology of composites in the Ossetian language, which are distinguished by a variety of both the nature of the semantic relationship between the components of the structure and their formal and structural characteristics, are considered.


2017 ◽  
Vol II (I) ◽  
pp. 106-113
Author(s):  
Akbar Ali ◽  
Muhammad Yasir Khan ◽  
Bilal Khan

Compounding as the word formation process is common across languages. Pashto language uses it as a productive morphological process. The paper aims at the structural description of compound and compound-complex adjectives in the language. For this purpose the data were collected through discourse centered method, Pashto newspapers and Pashto programmes on T.V and radio. The data is analyzed using Plag’s (2003) work on word formation in English as theoretical framework. The analysis proves that the grammatical categories exploited in order to derive non-simple adjectives are that of noun, verb and adjective. Further, it also reveals the fact that compound-complex adjectives are derived through synthetic compounding. It also denote the fact that in cases where compound-complex words are formed, the suffixed is invariably attached to the element on the right.


Linguistics ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zheng Xu

Abstract The status of Chinese adjective-noun combinations ([A N]) has been debated for decades. This paper argues that Chinese [A N] are word-level expressions constructed in an autonomous word formation component of the grammar. I propose a monomorphemic constraint on the adjective of [A N]. Together with evidence from the tests of modification by degree adverbs, conjunction reduction, and XP substitution, this constraint supports the wordhood of Chinese [A N]. Additional evidence is that Chinese [A N] have a potential naming function and are subject to selectional restrictions. Neither anaphoric accessibility nor the restrictions on the ordering of adjectives are reliable criteria for establishing the status of Chinese [A N]. The various properties of Chinese [A N] are accounted for under the framework of Construction Morphology (Booij, Geert. 2010. Construction Morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.).


1988 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry G. Peppers

Does grief occur subsequent to elective abortion? This basic question is addressed using maternal-infant bonding as a basic theoretical framework. The temporal sequence of the three medical procedures: vacuum aspiration; dilitation and evacuation; and intrauterine induction, facilitated the testing of basic hypotheses deduced from bonding theory, as well as exploration of the grief reaction to the voluntary termination of a pregnancy. Grief associated with elective abortion was found to be symptomatically similar to grief experienced following involuntary fetal/infant loss, and may be initiated by the decision to terminate the pregnancy.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-46
Author(s):  
Antonio C. Cuyler

This article represents a snapshot and analysis of U. S. service arts organizations’ DEI statements and activities in 2018. At that time, many primarily White-serving U. S. cultural organizations responded defensively to accusations of elitism and a harmful rigged funding system that maintained the status quo by awarding most cultural funding to these organizations while undermining the health and vitality of cultural organizations by and for historically oppressed communities (Sidford, 2011). Furthermore, Helicon Collaborative (2017) found that even with a host of cultural equity, “diversity” projects (Tseng 2016), and public-facing DEI statements, little had changed within six years. Therefore, this study uses directed and summative content analysis to investigate the research question “what do cultural equity and diversity statements communicate about cultural organizations’ positions on DEI?” This study also uses Frankfurt’s (2005) essay On Bullshit and Laing’s (2016) two-prong definition of accountability as a theoretical framework to examine if and how cultural organizations hold themselves accountable for achieving DEI in the creative sector. Lastly, readers should keep in mind that the public murder of Geor-ge Floyd in 2020 has hastened all of the service arts organizations’ access, diversity, equity, and inclusion (ADEI) work examined in this study.


2020 ◽  
pp. 39-71

This article describes the derivational potential of root word combinations belonging to the noun, adjective and verb groups in the English and Uzbek languages and their grammatical functional features on the basis of comparative-typological, comparative and distributive methods at the lexical and syntactic levels of the language. Structural models of derivation of verbs, nouns and adjectives in the English and Uzbek languages and their features are considered based on component analysis, as well as morphological factors that ensure the completeness of derivation, their distinctive and similar features in both languages, the role and importance in the formation of verbal compounds is analyzed in detail. The article also identifies the factors that ensure the transposition of root verbs, nouns and adjectives in English and Uzbek, and describes their structural-functional and contextual-semantic analysis at the required level. Until today’s period of development of linguistics, many problematic processes related to the language system have been studied and researched. This situation can be observed both in the context of world linguistics and in the context of Uzbek linguistics. Linguistics, like all sciences, is constantly evolving. Due to this, it is natural that there are still problematic processes in this sphere today. The fact that the phenomenon of derivation less researched in the context of root words can be related to such problems, because in both English and Uzbek linguistics the problem of derivation of root words is not studied at the required level. Any new word that exists in a language takes its initial form from speech, and thus the speech dependence of the word formed ends, because the next life of a derived word goes on in a language. That is, the derived word takes its place in the paradigm of its own analogical forms after being tested in social speech activity for a certain period of time. Only derivatives that have fully passed such tests will receive the status of a language unit and, like their other paradigms, will begin to function as a means of enriching the language with new constructions. It is well known that the derivational sequence of linguistic units cannot be fully understood only on the basis of grammatical research, because word formation in its extralinguistic basis is a product of speech activity. Since related words are considered not as a finished product of the language, but as a product of speech, since they are artificial words, in speech they are activated only in the form in which they are adapted for communication. In some places, depending on the need for speech, we can also observe cases where two or more related words are involved in the process of communication or in context. In this article, the works of English and Uzbek writers are selected as a source, as well as the degree of influence of the speech situation of both languages on the choice of words is studied and scientifically substantiated on the examples taken for analysis. As a result of syntactic-semantic analysis of root word combinations in the English language, on the basis of a detailed analysis, it was shown that root words can be combined with other words in speech, forming various models.


HISTOREIN ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Brzechczyn

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Author(s):  
Elena L. Berezovich ◽  
◽  
Valeria S. Kuchko ◽  

The authors investigate the phenomenon of species substitution in official and unofficial names of stones, minerals and metals in the Russian language. Examples of species substitutions are the cases when the designation of a particular mineral (stone, metal) contains the name of a mineral or a metal of another type (class, category), e. g. the Ural emerald ‘demantoid’, the cat's gold ‘mica of golden colour’, pseudomalachite ‘water-phosphate of copper’ etc. As a rule, the objects chosen as a standard for comparing the nominated object with another one are those that were identified earlier than the nominated object and to which a greater value was attributed in many cases (most often the standards are the most valuable precious stones or precious metals (diamond, ruby, emerald, gold). The article presents some typical categories of mineralogical vocabulary which often include nominations with species substitution (for example, trade and everyday names that ‘raise the status’ of a mineral – Siberian diamond ‘colourless topaz’; pejorative names that indicate a false relationship between minerals – false diamond ‘rock crystal’; neutral names that capture the actual external or chemical similarity of objects – black amber ‘jet’, etc.). Separately, the authors focus on combinations with the lexeme gold which denote both substances not related to gold and alloys of gold and other metals – this allows us to trace in detail the possibilities of the separate lexeme’s participation in word formation resulting in nominations with species substitution. The authors propose their own motivational reconstructions for a number of ‘golden’ cases (for example, for mouse gold ‘marcasite’, frog gold ‘platinum’, etc.).


The Introduction provides an overview of the central questions and the theoretical framework of the book. Since the early 1990s in Europe and the United States many artists critically re-appropriated religious, motifs, themes and images to produce works that cannot qualify as ‘religious,’ but remains in a dialogue with the visual legacy of mostly the Western, and more specifically the Catholic, version of Christianity. Present-day art does not embed religious images to celebrate them, but in order to pose critical questions concerning central aspects of the rules that regulate the status of images, their public significance, the conditions of their production and authorship, and their connection to an origin or tradition, a context or an author that guarantees their value. The motif of the true image or acheiropoietos (not made by a human hand) is related to central set of features that allow distinguishing between regimes or eras of the image. Its transformations provide a conceptual matrix for understanding of the reconfiguring relationships between art and religion. The introduction provides an overview of the theoretical context, the selection of artworks, bibliography on the subject and the chapters of the book.


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