The book provides a comprehensive theory of conversion in English based on the onomasiological method of word-formation research, and on a theory of linguistic signs. The manuscript presents extensive arguments for rejecting the zero-morpheme theory. Its focus is on an original model of conversion that underlies the analysis of phonological aspects of conversion, a theory of the predictability of meanings of new coinages, the semiotic nature of conversion-related proper names, primary-secondary relations, and a number of other issues of conversion in the English language.
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Frankfurt a.M.
Deutschland
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Höhe: 21 cm
Breite: 14.8 cm
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978-3-631-30232-3 (9783631302323)
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The Author: Pavol Stekauer works as a senior lecturer in linguistics at the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Presov, Slovakia. He specializes in word-formation, lexicology, and general linguistics, and is an author of several books, textbooks, dictionaries, and a number of papers in professional linguistic journals.
Contents: A comprehensive theory of conversion in English based on the onomasiological method of word-formation research, and on a theory of linguistic sign - an original model of conversion - a theory of predictability of coinages.
