Date: 29-Jan-2009 From: Daniel Davies <ddaviescambridge.org> Subject: Morphology and Lexical Semantics: Lieber E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Morphology and Lexical Semantics
Series Title: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 104
Published: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Note: This is the paperback edition of a previously announced book.
Exploring the meanings of morphemes and how they combine to form the meanings of complex words, this book examines derived words (writer, unionize), compounds (dog bed, truck driver), and words formed by conversion. Using a series of case studies from English, Rochelle Lieber analyzes the lexical semantics of word formation in a systematic way. The reader is able to explore the nature of affixal polysemy-- the reasons why there are multiple affixes with the same function, and the issues of mismatch between form and meaning in word formation.
Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Features; 2. Co-indexation; 3. The semantics of verb formation; 4. Extending the system - location; 5. Extending the system - quantity; 6. Combinability and the correspondence between form and meaning; 7. Looking back, looking forward; References; Index.
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