Spanish Word Formation: Productive Derivational Morphology in the Modern Lexis

1991 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 540
Author(s):  
Dorothy A. Rissel ◽  
Mervyn F. Lang
Keyword(s):  
Word Formation ◽  
Derivational Morphology ◽  
Spanish Word

Spanish Word Formation: Productive Derivational Morphology in the Modern Lexis

Language ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 210
Author(s):  
Robert Beard ◽  
Mervyn F. Lang
Keyword(s):  
Word Formation ◽  
Derivational Morphology ◽  
Spanish Word

scholarly journals Lexicalization and Spanish derivational morphology

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Carlos Benavides
Keyword(s):  
Word Formation ◽  
Linguistic Theory ◽  
Secondary Process ◽  
Exploratory Search ◽  
Derivational Morphology ◽  
Corpus Study ◽  
Spanish Word ◽  
Dual Route ◽  
Dual Route Model ◽  
Additional Support

In this study lexicalization refers to derivation where an idiosyncratic component of meaning has been acquired. Being non-compositional, lexicalized items are usually considered irregular. In accordance with an emerging view that irregularity should take a place as one of the central issues in linguistic theory, this article deals with lexicalized derivatives in Spanish within the framework provided by the dual-route model. On the basis of intuitive speculation and an exploratory search of a Spanish corpus, the hypothesis was formulated that a significant majority of derivatives in Spanish are compositional; therefore, lexicalization is a secondary process in Spanish word formation. A corpus study comparing results from two large Spanish corpora was conducted to test the hypothesis. The results, based on an analysis of over 10,000 derivatives confirm the hypothesis, supporting the author’s intuitions and providing additional support for the dual-route model. In addition, the corpus findings suggest that metaphor in Spanish derivation is not as common as may previously have been thought.

Spanish Word Formation: Productive Derivational Morphology in the Modern Lexis

Hispania ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 905
Author(s):  
Masataka Ishikawa ◽  
Mervyn Francis Lang
Keyword(s):  
Word Formation ◽  
Derivational Morphology ◽  
Spanish Word

scholarly journals Mervyn Francis Lang, Spanish word formation: Productive derivational morphology in the modern lexis. Routledge, London-New York, 1990; 270 pp.

1994 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 611-615
Author(s):  
María Eugenia Vázquez Laslop
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Derivational Morphology ◽  
Spanish Word

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Spanish Word Formation: Productive Derivational Morphology in the Modern Lexis

1992 ◽  
Vol 87 (3) ◽  
pp. 771
Author(s):  
Lynn Williams ◽  
M. F. Lang
Keyword(s):  
Word Formation ◽  
Derivational Morphology ◽  
Spanish Word

Notes on Spanish Word Formation

1953 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Frederic Koenig
Keyword(s):  
Word Formation ◽  
Spanish Word

Derivational morphology in flux: a case study of word-formation change in German

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Hartmann
Keyword(s):  
Morphological Change ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Derivational Morphology ◽  
Statistical Association ◽  
Morphological Pattern ◽  
Diachronic Change ◽  
Methodological Considerations ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Theoretical Considerations

AbstractThe diachronic change of word-formation patterns is currently gaining increasing interest in cognitive-linguistic and constructionist approaches. This paper contributes to this line of research with a corpus-based investigation of nominalization with the suffix-ungin German. In doing so, it puts forward both theoretical and methodological considerations on morphology and morphological change from a usage-based perspective. Regarding methodology, the long-standing topic of how to measure (changes in) the productivity of a morphological pattern is discussed, and it is shown how statistical association measures can be applied to quantify the relationship between word-formation patterns and their bases. These findings are linked up with theoretical considerations on the interplay between constructional schemas and their respective instances.

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