
Cognitive Perspectives on Word Formation
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While cognitive linguistics has become established as a comprehensive research paradigm over the last three decades, it has so far hardly contributed to investigations into processes of lexical creation as traditionally captured in research on word formation. In light of this, the volume at hand is the first one to take a step ahead towards illuminating diverse aspects of word formation from cognitive perspectives. The book combines contributions to the 2nd International Cognitive Linguistics Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association with a selection of invited papers by scholars working on issues of word formation and cognitive linguistics.
This selection is guided by pluralism in both methodology and topics. Thus, some contributions are of a primarily theoretical nature discussing, for example, recombinance as a model of word formation and a taxonomy of word formation processes as construction types. Several articles address interface issues such as word formation and phrasal constructions, word formation and inflection, as well as phonology and word formational patterns. The majority of the studies focuses on individual types of word formation (compounding, affixation, and conversion), and they contribute to reframing our understanding of these processes. With a focus on mostly Germanic languages (Afrikaans, Dutch, English, German, Luxembourgish, and Norwegian), data-driven analyses include corpus linguistic investigations, elicited data, psycholinguistic experiments, and computational linguistic applications. A few contributions follow a mainly introspective path of reasoning based on the discussion of selected examples as in the analysis of creative compounds.
Overall, the volume provides a rich array of topics emerging under the umbrella of cognitive linguistic thought and established patterns and processes of word formation. The various studies add to a yet marginal body of research in cognitive word formation and, thus, advance our awareness about the benefits of applying cognitive linguistic thoughts for investigating processes of lexical creation.
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2 - Table of contents [Seite 7]
3 - Introduction: Unravelling the cognitive in word formation [Seite 9]
4 - Part I Theory and interfaces in word formation [Seite 35]
4.1 - Word-formation or word formation? The formation of complex words in Cognitive Linguistics [Seite 37]
4.2 - On the viability of cognitive morphology for explaining language change [Seite 83]
4.3 - (Re)defining component structures in morphological constructions: A Cognitive Grammar perspective [Seite 105]
4.4 - Between phonology and morphology [Seite 135]
4.5 - The role of grammatical gender in noun-formation: A diachronic perspective from Norwegian [Seite 155]
4.6 - Adjective + Noun constructions between syntax and word formation in Dutch and German [Seite 203]
5 - Part II Theory and processes of word formation [Seite 225]
5.1 - Setting limits on creativity in the production and use of metaphorical and metonymical compounds [Seite 227]
5.2 - Casting the conceptual spotlight: Hybrid compounding in German as an example of headframe internal specifier selection [Seite 251]
5.3 - Does love come from to love or to love from love? Why lexical motivation has to be regarded as bidirectional [Seite 309]
5.4 - Doubler-upper nouns: A challenge for usage-based models of language? [Seite 343]
5.5 - The influence of morphological structure on the processing of German prefixed verbs [Seite 383]
5.6 - Harvesting and understanding on-line neologisms [Seite 407]
6 - Subject index [Seite 429]
7 - Contributors [Seite 437]
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