
Directionality in English morphological conversion
Alba E. Ruz(Author)
Peter Lang Verlag
Published on 26. December 2025
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-3-0343-5788-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book tests semantic and quantitative-distributional criteria for directionality in present-day English noun/verb conversion. Directionality is claimed to be ascertained accurately if identified at the level of sense, not lexeme, as in Plank (2010). This is particularly relevant where polysemy allows multiple directions within a lexeme.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Lausanne
Switzerland
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
60 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 21 cm
Width: 14.8 cm
Weight
385 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-0343-5788-3 (9783034357883)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Alba E. Ruz holds a PhD in English Linguistics from the University of Granada (Spain). Her research is on English morphology, with a special focus on word formation and lexical semantics.
Content
Tables - Figures - Abbreviations - 1 Introduction - 1.1 Focus of study - 1.2 Justification and hypothesis - 1.3 Aims and methods - 2 Directionality in conversion - 2.1 Conversion or zero-derivation - 2.2 Approaches to conversion - 2.3 The approach in this study - 2.4 The issue of directionality - 2.5 Criteria to determine directionality - 3 Methodological approach - 3.1 Resources: Dictionary And Corpus - 3.2 Procedures For The Analysis Of Directionality - 3.3 Distribution Of senses into orders of derivation - 3.4 Methodological remarks - 3.5 Implications of the sense organization - 4 Applicability of the criteria for directionality - 4.1 Individual applicability of the criteria - 4.2 Cross-criteria consistency - 4.3 Overview on the cross-criteria consistency - 5 On the issues and relevance of the criteria - 5.1 Introduction - 5.2 Semantic Dependence (SD) - 5.3 Semantic Pattern (SP) - 5.4 Semantic Range (SR) - 5.5 Restrictions of Usage (RU) - 5.6 Quantitative-distributional criteria: FO And RR - 6 Conclusions - 6.1 Introduction - 6.2 Findings - 6.3 Limitations and future research - References - Appendix