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OverviewLexical innovations represent unconventional forms resulting from unsuccessful rule application by children as they unpack regular patterns in their language and develop a set of guidelines that govern their early word use. They are novel words, coined specifically to refer to an object, process or event, for which the child has not learnt the conventional form. The study used an ethnographic approach to investigate how Luo children, acquiring their native language, Dholuo, engaged in the production of lexical innovations in an effort to bridge the lexical gaps in their mental lexicons, resulting from their failure to retrieve or learn the conventional forms. It reports that children manipulated word-formation paradigms of Dholuo to create lexical innovations which, in turn, were related Dholuo derivational morphology. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Daniel Ochieng Orwenjo , Rainer VossenPublisher: Peter Lang AG Imprint: Peter Lang AG Edition: New edition Volume: 17 Weight: 0.510kg ISBN: 9783631593158ISBN 10: 3631593155 Pages: 266 Publication Date: 14 September 2009 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsContents: Methodology – Taxonomy of innovations – Generative lexicon and lexical access account of innovative denominal verbs – Innovative deverbal nouns, adjectives and compound nominals – Socio-demographic and contextual factors in lexical innovations.ReviewsAuthor InformationThe Author: Daniel Ochieng Orwenjo is a lecturer in the Department of English and Linguistics at Kenyatta University (Kenya). He holds B.Ed. (Arts) and M.A. (Applied Linguistics) degrees from Kenyatta University and a Ph.D. from the University of Frankfurt am Main. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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