Overview

The problem of form and meaning in morphology has produced an impressive amount of scholarly work over the last hundred years. Nevertheless, many issues continue to be in need of clarification. The present volume assembles 18 selected papers from the 15th International Morphology Meeting (Vienna, 9–12 February 2012) relating to this vast field of research. The introduction provides a detailed overview of the state of the art in the field. It is followed by three articles derived from the plenaries that are dedicated to fundamental issues such as the relationship between morphological meaning and concepts, between word formation and meaning change, as well as indirect coding. The section papers tackle a wide array of issues, including affixal polysemy, pathways of grammaticalization, the processing of compounds, mismatches between form and meaning, synonymy avoidance, or the semantics of specific patterns of noun incorporation, compounding, reduplication and mimetic verbs.

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Author:   Franz Rainer (WU Vienna) ,  Francesco Gardani (WU Vienna) ,  Hans Christian Luschützky (University of Vienna) ,  Wolfgang U. Dressler (University of Vienna)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   327
Weight:   0.790kg
ISBN:  

9789027248466

ISBN 10:   902724846
Pages:   350
Publication Date:   27 February 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Editors' introduction; 2. Morphology and meaning: An overview (by Rainer, Franz); 3. Plenary papers; 4. Roots, concepts, and word structure: On the atoms of lexical semantics (by Acquaviva, Paolo); 5. Between word formation and meaning change (by Koch, Peter); 6. Indirect coding (by Lehmann, Christian); 7. Section papers; 8. Diachrony and the polysemy of derivational affixes (by Arcodia, Giorgio F.); 9. Possessive compounds in Slavic and the Principle of Integrated Meronymy (by Chovanova, Iveta); 10. Relation diversity and ease of processing for opaque and transparent English compounds (by Gagne, Christina L.); 11. Inflection vs. derivation: The function and meaning of the Mordvin abessive (by Hamari, Arja); 12. Discrepancy between form and meaning in word-formation: The case of over- and under-marking in French (by Hathout, Nabil); 13. Compounds vs. phrases: The cognitive status of morphological products (by Kotowski, Sven); 14. Semantic transparency, compounding, and the nature of independent variables (by Libben, Gary); 15. The layering of form and meaning in creole word-formation: A view from construction morphology (by Luis, Ana R.); 16. Semantic headedness and categorization of -cum- compounds (by Marti Solano, Ramon); 17. German plural doublets with and without meaning differentiation (by Morth, Karlheinz); 18. On the form and meaning of double noun incorporation (by Muro, Alessio); 19. Tuning morphosemantic transparency by shortening: A cross-linguistic perspective (by Ronneberger-Sibold, Elke); 20. Root transparency and the morphology-meaning interface: Data from Hebrew (by Seroussi, Batia); 21. Mimetic verbs and meaning (by Tsujimura, Natsuko); 22. Mismatch verbs: A unified account of unaccusatives and deponents (by Weisser, Philipp); 23. The canonical function of the deponent verbs in modern Greek (by Zombolou, Katerina); 24. Language index; 25. Subject index

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