Word Formation as a Naming Device
Will be published approx. on 31. December 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
312 pages
978-1-4744-8702-3 (ISBN)
Description
Ten Hacken and Panocova present a systematic overview of how different current morphological theories account for the naming function of word formation.
Naming is an essential preliminary step for the effective use of language. In most linguistic theories, word formation is covered as a part of morphology. However, morphological theories, especially those in generative linguistics, tend to focus on the form and structure of words, rather than on their naming function. As a result, it is often not made explicit how naming is accounted for.In this book, the authors cover new ground in describing and comparing theories from this perspective. They highlight the relevance of the naming perspective in both generative and functionalist approaches and in doing so challenge the way morphological theories are received and developed. The authors develop a framework for identifying which aspects of naming have been or can be covered in each theory and evaluate the success of the resulting account. The results of this comparison can be used for the selection of theories in research and teaching.
Naming is an essential preliminary step for the effective use of language. In most linguistic theories, word formation is covered as a part of morphology. However, morphological theories, especially those in generative linguistics, tend to focus on the form and structure of words, rather than on their naming function. As a result, it is often not made explicit how naming is accounted for.In this book, the authors cover new ground in describing and comparing theories from this perspective. They highlight the relevance of the naming perspective in both generative and functionalist approaches and in doing so challenge the way morphological theories are received and developed. The authors develop a framework for identifying which aspects of naming have been or can be covered in each theory and evaluate the success of the resulting account. The results of this comparison can be used for the selection of theories in research and teaching.
Reviews / Votes
This book is an extremely ambitious and comprehensive milestone in the field of morphology, with a fresh and unique approach connecting form and meaning in the area of word formation and naming in particular. -- Kerstin Richter, University of RegensburgMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Illustrations
22 black and white illustrations, 19 black and white tables
Dimensions
Height: 155 mm
Width: 236 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
470 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-8702-3 (9781474487023)
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Persons
Pius ten Hacken is a Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Innsbruck. His research focuses on word formation, terminology and the mental lexicon. His latest monograph is Word Formation in Parallel Architecture (2019). Together with Maria Koliopoulou, he was guest editor for a special issue on New Words and Linguistic Purism of the International Journal of Lexicography (2020). His latest edited volume, co-edited with Renata Panocova, is The Interaction of Borrowing and Word Formation (Edinburgh University Press, 2020). Renata Panocova is a Professor of Linguistics at the Department of British and American Studies at the Faculty of Arts of the Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice. Her research focuses on word formation, language for special purposes and intercultural communication. Her latest monographs are The Vocabulary of Medical English: A Corpus-Based Study (2017) and Categories of Word Formation and Borrowing: An onomasiological account of neoclassical formations (2015). Together with Pius ten Hacken she edited The Interaction of Borrowing and Word Formation (Edinburgh University Press, 2020).
Content
Preface
1. Naming concepts
2. Naming in the history of morphology
3. Historical relationships between current theories of morphology
4. An approach to the analysis of naming
5. Distributed Morphology
6. Lexical Morphology
7. The Lexical Semantic Framework
8. Construction Morphology
9. Relational Morphology
10. Cognitive Grammar
11. Stekauer's onomasiological theory
12. Natural morphology
13. An assessment of similarities and differences between theoretical frameworks
Bibliography
1. Naming concepts
2. Naming in the history of morphology
3. Historical relationships between current theories of morphology
4. An approach to the analysis of naming
5. Distributed Morphology
6. Lexical Morphology
7. The Lexical Semantic Framework
8. Construction Morphology
9. Relational Morphology
10. Cognitive Grammar
11. Stekauer's onomasiological theory
12. Natural morphology
13. An assessment of similarities and differences between theoretical frameworks
Bibliography